Song Quotes · Page 724

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about…

— Geoff Zanelli

I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.

— Narada Michael Walden

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

— Sergio Garcia

Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I…

— Sia

I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

— Steven Pinker

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because…

— Juliana Hatfield

I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the…

— Johnny Mercer

I think we have to assume we have one life. Though, having said that, I did write a song called 'You Only…

— Leslie Bricusse

Being with the right person is caring for another physically, mentally and spiritually. It is caring for anothers soul. As the relationship…

— Robert Scheid

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor -…

— Jackie DeShannon

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and…

— Jorja Smith

People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space…

— Blake Shelton

[Music From the Edge of Heaven] wasn't really an album at all. The band had made the decision to release an LP…

— George Michael

As soon as a song plays, people want to skip to the next one. That's not how you judge a good or…

— Jubin Nautiyal

It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you…

— Will Sheff

The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?

— Daniel Tosh

I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I…

— Megan Rapinoe

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

— Wyclef Jean

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

I think most people now listen to different genres when they have different moods. I know I certainly do.

— Doug Walters

The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.

— Little Simz

I am not a trained singer, but when I was offered to sing for 'LPNY,' I took it up as a challenge.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

— Walter Savage Landor

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me.…

— Torae

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain…

— Bing Crosby

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

— Earle Brown

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their…

— John Oates

Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.

— Mat McNerney

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the…

— Patti LaBelle

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

— Steve Miller

I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash…

— William McKeen

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

— David Bowie

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my…

— Kevin Parker

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our…

— Abbey Lincoln

Singing is still the important thing to me. I love singing. I wouldn't be putting myself through all this if I didn't.

— Tevin Campbell

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

— Tori Amos

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's…

— Jacob Collier

If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.

— Pete Wentz

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

— John Lennon