Song Quotes · Page 807

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

— Anonymous

“A great song that gets played so often you can no longer hear what made it great.”

— Andy Selsberg

The band, and myself, really pride ourselves on being passionate and writing our songs and showing the world we're in music for…

— Luke Hemmings

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own…

— Patti LaBelle

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an…

— Anonymous

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own…

— Curt Sachs

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.

— India Arie

“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing…

— Adam M. Grant

To me, I always felt like drums have to be the support and the driving factor in a song, and there's places…

— Vinnie Paul

Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it…

— Eric Weiner

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need…

— Carmen Ejogo

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a…

— Anna Netrebko

I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your…

— John Rzeznik

I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view…

— Marcus Miller

When I was between the ages of 5 and 8 years old, I fell in love with the music of composers like…

— Bear McCreary

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

— Garth Brooks

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

— Jens Lekman

I'm still out for having fun and making good music - that's really all it's about for me.

— Everlast

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went…

— David Cassidy

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for…

— Will Kimbrough

Working on 'Aasmaan' was a delight, Raj and DK are phenomenal with their vision, and Raghav and Anumita have added the right…

— Tanishk Bagchi

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least…

— Oprah Winfrey

I've always had a deep resonance, but I love vocal work, and I've been doing it for so many years.

— Lana Parrilla

When you think, 'I want to be an artist,' there are a few things you think of, the first thing being: album.

— Raye

I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.

— Benjamin Clementine

If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric…

— Amy Ray

Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have…

— Julian Treasure

“Aoi: Our motto is: music is music, therefore there should not be any boundaries or intolerance.”

— Aoi

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

— Black Elk

So sexy go crazy my baby no maybe if you want me so sexy come and sing your song.

— Bob Sinclar

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

— Ken Hill

We've never written anything to have success with it. We've written songs that we love.

— Nuno Bettencourt

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the…

— Bruce Springsteen

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry…

— Guy Garvey

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

— Burt Bacharach

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

— Genesis P-Orridge

My song 'Smooth Operator,' I think that's a real simple, easy, sing-a-long kind of song. It's not too complicated.

— Big Daddy Kane

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

— Anonymous

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

— St. Lucia