Song Quotes · Page 797

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't…

— Mark Hoppus

“Forever, shall the wolf in me desire the sheep within you… From the song "Beauty and the Beast" By: Nightwish”

— Nightwish

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is…

— Quincy Jones

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

— Michael Connelly

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring…

— Charles Lamb

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

We're not doing anything vicious or doing anything hateful. All we're doing is writing music that's our truth. I don't think there's…

— Maddie Marlow

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

— Danny Gokey

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an…

— Sufjan Stevens

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own…

— David Bowie

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting…

— Quentin S. Crisp

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how…

— Arthur Rubinstein

“You have millions of fans. Everyone around the world loves your songs. How can that not be enough?" "Because music can't tell…

— Bella Andre

I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage…

— Wayne Shorter

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange,…

— Dhani Harrison

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.…

— Pete Seeger

Axl did sometimes have volatile actions, but I knew that guy as a whole - all the good stuff, too.

— Duff McKagan

You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.

— Nicholas Thorburn

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or…

— Kurt Masur

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

— Smokey Robinson

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

— James Righton

There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because…

— Chris Stapleton

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

— Reggie Watts

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

— James Hetfield

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

— K. Flay

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write something new and…

— Glenn Hughes

I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had,…

— Johnny Cash

You don't have to keep trying to sound like your last song. There's new things to do.

— John Waite

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about…

— Ty Segall

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

— Scott McKenzie

“Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every…

— Stephen King

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

— Sam Endicott

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

— James Murphy

“Izzy’s new band also featured Tracii Guns on lead guitar. They were calling the new group Guns N’ Roses.”

— Duff McKagan

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I…

— Rosemary Clooney

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

— Gabriel Marcel

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in…

— Rudolf Steiner

I always loved music, but it was a passion that I had put to the side for my whole life.

— Tucker Halpern

The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.

— Kelsea Ballerini