Song Quotes · Page 795

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and…

— Zedd

“Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which…

— Wu Wei

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

— Tiffany Hwang

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some…

— Amanda Shires

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because…

— Haley Reinhart

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of…

— Bruno Mars

Its not love for music, its a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, its about a way of…

— Zahid Abas

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

— Ani DiFranco

It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that…

— Chuck Comeau

“Sing me a pretty love song as I start to cry Tell me you love me as you wipe the blood from…

— Rachel Lloyd

When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like…

— Butch Walker

My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My…

— Damien Dempsey

There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up…

— Anonymous

I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I…

— Tori Amos

I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts…

— Willie Nelson

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier…

— Andrew Bird

Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song.

— SonReal

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take…

— Annie Lennox

The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no…

— Tom DeLonge

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If the music is live, then there is a praise inside of you that will bring the Glory cloud realm.”

— Renny McLean

I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes.

— Ryan Bingham

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being…

— Vince Staples

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long…

— Bucky Pope

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

— Simon Rattle

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this…

— Martin Gore

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

— Chuck Schuldiner

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

— Estelle

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

— Pete Fountain

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song…

— Deborah Cox

“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.”

— Eric Maisel

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

— Dan Auerbach

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

— Melvyn Bragg

“The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from…

— Greg Kihn

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

— Jennifer Egan

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're…

— Vince Gill

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was…

— Trombone Shorty

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

— Jane Monheit