Quotes About Songs

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop.

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds.

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication."

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

I always meant to convey a message of peace and harmony, and thought I was choosing my songs accordingly.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

I find joy and magic in every drop of moonlight. I hear songs of love in every glint of a star.

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.

Now you may hear songs of kindness From every singing bird And from every dancing heart Let kindness be the part of your being