Song Quotes · Page 679

“Asking to hold a musician’s instrument is roughly similar to asking to kiss a man’s wife.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

— Luce Irigaray

The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.

— Vikrant Parsai

I wrote the song 'I LOVE U, U LOVE ME' wishing to have the most fantastic show ever.

— Ok Taec-yeon

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

— Dean Lewis

My music is quite diverse, but it blends Grime, Hip-Hop, Old Skool and other urban genres together.

— Bugzy Malone

The 'Aldous Harding' record isn't easily placed because it wasn't trying to sound like anything. It was quite organic.

— Aldous Harding

Dear Music, thank you for being there when no one else was. But please, enough with the ballads for awhile.

— Anonymous

“Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…

— Salman Rushdie

“He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might…

— Harlan Coben

I'm not a big fan of guitar face: you know, when someone's playing guitar, and they make this really embarrassing face, like…

— Lucas Till

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that…

— Danger Mouse

I write incessantly, I'm very productive, I write for a dozen publications and blogs and websites. A lot of very hardcore political…

— Ted Nugent

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had…

— St. Vincent

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce…

— George Crumb

A lot of times you can write a scene with a specific song in mind, and then you lay it over the…

— Harmony Korine

Selena recorded a song I had written and she left my parts in on the middle eight so it ended up being…

— Pixie Lott

I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

— Nate Dogg

When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.

— Linda Grant

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

— Nikki Sixx

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

— Bridgit Mendler

I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.

— George Harrison

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

— Thomas Beecham

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

— Anonymous

“Symphonies begin with one note; fires with one flame; gardens with one flower; and masterpieces with one stroke.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

— Rip Torn

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

— Astrid S

My wife is an incredible pianist. I don't think there's anything my wife can't do, in all actuality.

— Matt Hardy

Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.

— Hayley Williams

For me, pop melodies are their own thing that have their own emotion, but they don't necessarily belong exclusively in a pop…

— Kevin Parker

People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring…

— Dianne Reeves

I don't really generate material specifically for the Kingsway Music Library. It's just a product of the way I work.

— Frank Dukes

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

— Pete Seeger

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

— Robert Fripp

The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

— Aaron Dontez Yates

Music is made from the heart and the mind. It is every emotion a human being can convey.

— Travis Benton

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be…

— Taylor Goldsmith

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their…

— George Crumb

There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.

— Mark Foster