Quotes About Music

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

With independent music sometimes you are able to bring yourself out and your persona out, 'Tanhaai' was that song for me.

When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a movie song, it's not you who is doing everything it's the creative heads and production house.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent.

Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.

I love song and dance films in Bollywood.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.

I want to do masala movies. I love the Bollywood films that we are known for. I love the whole song and dance act.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.

Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood.

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.