Song Quotes · Page 676

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art…

— Greg Lake

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes…

— Gil Scott-Heron

I never anticipated that people would be listening to my songs and getting something out of them.

— Noah Reid

You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of…

— Katy Evans

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum…

— Bill Ward

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not…

— Frankie Cosmos

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

— Avril Lavigne

We're not on a mission to uplift people, but music in general has such a profound effect on people.

— Ron Mael

“Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about the…

— Anonymous

The reason I play so many sounds, maybe it sounds angry, is because I'm trying so many things at one time, you…

— John Coltrane

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at…

— Julian Casablancas

A lot of young drummers have a tendency to really overplay. Sometimes simple is better, and the notes that aren't played between…

— Vinnie Paul

What we're doing is special and unique in its own way but still keeping it heavy. For me as a listener, part…

— Robert Trujillo

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't…

— Sean Lennon

All punk music is is rebellion, going against the grain. It takes different forms. Sometimes it's a band throwing their instruments around…

— Mura Masa

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same…

— Aaron Copland

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

— Billy Gibbons

I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that…

— James Ingram

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

— Kim Thayil

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

— Prince

There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

— Stacie Orrico

It's funny how we can remember all the words to a song but can't remember anything we studied

— Corey Chevier

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

— Roger McGuinn

She is always a subject to my mouth friends of mine get used of me it is become a song ,

— Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

— John Corigliano

I do have some songs where it is about my relationship with my husband, and it does get very personal.

— Jessie James Decker

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

— Kid Rock

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who…

— Maddie Marlow

I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what…

— Tyler Farr

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly,…

— Olivier Messiaen

Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.

— Selah Louise Marley

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.

— Jonathan Van Ness

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

— Guy de Maupassant

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs…

— Keith Urban

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, insiration, feeling, and understanding.

— Willie Dixon

I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I…

— Tommy Lee

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is…

— Tom DeLonge