Top 1200 Music And Lyrics Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but it's a fairly underground type of music. You do it for the love of the music more than being a star or anything.

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.

I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.

Drinking and partying never appealed to me in lyrics - they don't have a lot of meaning behind them.

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

People tend to put too much focus on the lyrics. It's not the be-all and end-all of our songs.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

'Wii Music' elevates the scope of music video games by moving beyond commentary on what music is - as 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero' do - to suggesting what it could be. Yet I'm still left wondering: Couldn't it be more?

Hindi film songs are the best of everything - whether it is lyrics, melody and talented singers.

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul.

The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.

We were big Clash fans, you know, big Who fans and I think we would listen to this music and talk about music and do nothing but music night and day, and when it came time to actually making our own music, you feel compelled to sort of tuck all those influences away, not show them.

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who has lived with the music. It's kind of like an experience you share. I'm on stage performing it, but they're singing the words, too.

I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

I am against vulgar lyrics. No one should feel ashamed while listening to a song.

I think music is just a wonderful ingredient that helps us understand a scene better. And certainly you can overuse music, and you can use the wrong music. I probably have been guilty of these things over time. But if you use music correctly as a friend of the theme, a friend of the narrative, ou can lend some terrific connective tissue to a film.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.

Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or Miles Davis or Pink Floyd... if the Floyd ever did serious music, which I seriously doubt.

There are two genres of music: there's good music and there's bad music.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Some people who make music are instantly very savvy about how they can get their music to communicate in a larger way. For me, the music was always first, and I put a lot of time and effort and thought into making the recordings. But everything else around it, all the things that were necessary to have a career in pop music, I was completely ill equipped to handle.

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music.

I saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.