Song Quotes · Page 803

I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul.

— Mohit Chauhan

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was…

— John Densmore

“MUSIC expressed what cannot be said and on which it is IMPOSSEBLE TO BE SILENT.”

— Victor Hugo

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take…

— M. Ward

I feel very good when songs are recreated or different singers sing the same song.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them…

— John James Audubon

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

— Robert Morris

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the…

— Estelle

The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the…

— Frankie Cosmos

There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many…

— Marcus Miller

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You…

— Rob Zombie

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you…

— Paul Lansky

I think something for us that we're always interested in is how people interpret the music or the band for themselves, and…

— Lizzy Plapinger

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the…

— Colin Hanks

That just felt like the most natural name out of all of the names. Everything else just felt so contrived. Even now,…

— Nate Ruess

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

— Arthur Rubinstein

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so…

— Emile M. Cioran

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

— Anonymous

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

— John Mellencamp

“Sing my song, Mommee.” Sarah smiled over her shoulder. “You are my sunshine . . .”

— Shelley Noble

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

— Naima Adedapo

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish…

— Jessica Sanchez

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

— John Petrucci

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

— Tom Petty

My father was responsible for me starting in music. He's always stood behind me.

— Gary Moore

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. ..

— Yann Martel

When I sing full voice, I get nervous because I get nasal and abrasive and a little scratchy.

— SZA

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

— Deana Carter

It's good to consider all the avenues a song will go down because then when you feel like you've come to your…

— Ellie Rowsell

We call out-of-tune singers as 'Aurangazeb singers.' I wouldn't say I'm as bad as an 'Aurangazeb singer,' but I'm definitely no singer.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

— Herb Alpert

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

— Becky G

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's…

— Chad Gilbert

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

— Herbie Hancock

I think that there are a lot of songs that are my favorite, but in terms of personal style, I still look…

— Tiffany Hwang

I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears.

— Kelly Blatz

The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite - ever.

— Anonymous

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

— Elton John

I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the…

— Wayne Static