Song Quotes · Page 796

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

— Bo Burnham

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

— John Cage

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

— Joni Mitchell

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four…

— Dave Van Ronk

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Sushan

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

— Stan Getz

“Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up.”

— Jarod Kintz

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills…

— Joaquin Miller

What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you…

— Benmont Tench

Music is this medium to express who I am and what I've been through and my thoughts and what my feelings on…

— Kamasi Washington

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke…

— Devin Townsend

The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are…

— Brad Nowell

Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta…

— Dan Bern

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small…

— Charlotte Caffey

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

— Judith Durham

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and…

— Keren Ann

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go…

— Ringo Starr

I wanted to be Rick Danko for most of my life despite the fact that I didn't play the bass!

— Jack Savoretti

When we made 'North Hills,' I had never heard Warren Zevon, and I never heard the Grateful Dead. I had never heard…

— Taylor Goldsmith

“The changes in her are like music missing the refrain. The song's transformed, though what's left remains familiar.”

— Corrine Jackson

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

— Wynton Marsalis

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

— Henry Rollins

“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks…

— G.K. Chesterton

I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

— Jessie J

A lot of people hear the records on the radio, they aren't absolutely sure who exactly Tears For Fears is, they just…

— Roland Orzabal

For my theme song, my leather black jeans on. My by any means on, pardon I'm getting my scream on.

— Kanye West

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

— Bishop Briggs

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

— Bill Wyman

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a…

— Stone Gossard

It's sort of funny to have songs get big about like, how much you feel like nobody likes you. It's sort of…

— Olivia Rodrigo

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the…

— Ella Henderson

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

— Joan Baez

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

— Bob Dylan

Right now I feel so inspired, it's hard to believe. I've written about 20 songs in the last two days. I'd gone…

— Tommy Bolin

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

— Tom Jones

I do love all types of music. I could be in a session for eight hours, and when I leave, I'll instinctively…

— Julia Michaels