Music or songs quotes:

Send

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway. -- Michael Gira
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. -- Levon Helm
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is. -- Amos Lee
I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco. -- Jello Biafra
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. -- Franz Liszt
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. -- John Lee Hooker
My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs. -- Eliza Doolittle
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away. -- Chris Cornell
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know? -- Ethan Coen
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me. -- J. Tillman
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song. -- Chris Cornell
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. -- David Antin
Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song. -- Trey Parker
I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone. -- Jennifer Hudson
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song. -- Daniel Ek
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. -- Henry Rollins
I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song. -- Stone Gossard
Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music. -- Ryan Adams
To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery. -- Nick Tosches
I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music. -- Nayvadius Cash
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music. -- Dave Grohl
Music just ain't what it used to; We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to. -- Jadakiss
I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out. -- Cliff Martinez
Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music. -- Noel Gallagher
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? -- Rufus Wainwright
When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity. -- Jann Klose
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven. -- Angel Olsen
Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By... -- Randall Jarrell
A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it. -- Alex Scally
As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback. -- Ben Lovett
My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me. -- Rodney Atkins
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. -- Ed Sheeran
Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not. -- Judy Collins
Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out. -- Eugene Chadbourne
If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs. -- Tamaryn
I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile. -- Frankie Cosmos

Send