Quotes about Music and song

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. Votes: 4

I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first. Votes: 3

George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique. Votes: 3

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. Votes: 2

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. Votes: 2

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music. Votes: 2

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Votes: 2

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. Votes: 2

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. Votes: 2

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs. Votes: 2

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. Votes: 2

A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. Votes: 2

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. Votes: 2

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. Votes: 2

Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. Votes: 2

I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen. Votes: 2

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. Votes: 2

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. Votes: 2

Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song. Votes: 2

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. Votes: 2

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song. Votes: 2

I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me. Votes: 2

A song is a poem set to music. Votes: 0

A love song is just a caress set to music. Votes: 0

Life is one grand sweet song so start the music Votes: 0

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Votes: 0

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the song of love with the music of morals. Votes: 0

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. Votes: 0

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. Votes: 0

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along. Votes: 0

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O. Votes: 0

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. Votes: 0

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine. Votes: 0

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. Votes: 0

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music. Votes: 0

Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile. Votes: 0

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. Votes: 0

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. Votes: 0

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever. Votes: 0

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. Votes: 0

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. Votes: 0

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music. Votes: 0

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. Votes: 0

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. Votes: 0

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music. Votes: 0

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. Votes: 0

I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.' Votes: 0

Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music. Votes: 0

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart, Votes: 0

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. Votes: 0

My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song. Votes: 0

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life. Votes: 0

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. Votes: 0

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write. Votes: 0

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. Votes: 0

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars Votes: 0

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. Votes: 0

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. Votes: 0

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. Votes: 0

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. Votes: 0

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music Votes: 0

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. Votes: 0

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. Votes: 0

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. Votes: 0

You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong. Votes: 0

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. Votes: 0

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. Votes: 0

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. Votes: 0

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. Votes: 0

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. Votes: 0

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. Votes: 0

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song. Votes: 0

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. Votes: 0

Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song. Votes: 0

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music. Votes: 0

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon. Votes: 0

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. Votes: 0

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song. Votes: 0

when the mind runs free , write a song . music pours happiness into the soul and a happy soul creates eternal success Votes: 0

Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written. Votes: 0

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal. Votes: 0

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make. Votes: 0

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music. Votes: 0

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music. Votes: 0

I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song. Votes: 0

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. Votes: 0

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. Votes: 0

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites. Votes: 0

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. Votes: 0

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. Votes: 0

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component. Votes: 0

"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable. Votes: 0

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET. Votes: 0

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that. Votes: 0

I wish I listened through my urethra, because imagine how euphoric and orgasmic music would be. One love song might get you pregnant. Votes: 0

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. Votes: 0

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. Votes: 0

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay. Votes: 0

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Votes: 0

My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it. Votes: 0

Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele. Votes: 0

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about. Votes: 0

When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy. Votes: 0

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on. Votes: 0

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song. Votes: 0

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me. Votes: 0

My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. Votes: 0

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. Votes: 0

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it. Votes: 0

That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. Votes: 0

Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song. Votes: 0

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound. Votes: 0

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song. Votes: 0

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. Votes: 0

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video. Votes: 0

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage. Votes: 0

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. Votes: 0

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music. Votes: 0

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire. Votes: 0

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music. Votes: 0

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song. Votes: 0

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song. Votes: 0

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments. Votes: 0

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed. Votes: 0

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard Votes: 0

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. Votes: 0

Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again. Votes: 0

That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite. Votes: 0

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along. Votes: 0

I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called 'Ooh La La,' that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music. Votes: 0

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry. Votes: 0

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual Votes: 0

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful. Votes: 0

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter? Votes: 0

I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song. Votes: 0

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. Votes: 0

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life. Votes: 0

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. Votes: 0

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible. Votes: 0

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music. Votes: 0

The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs. Votes: 0

When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. Votes: 0

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. Votes: 0

If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's the best music of all time. Votes: 0

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out. Votes: 0

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song. Votes: 0

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Votes: 0

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song. Votes: 0

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song. Votes: 0

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own. Votes: 0

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord Votes: 0

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off. Votes: 0

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song. Votes: 0

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to. Votes: 0

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold. Votes: 0

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. Votes: 0