Top 100 Quotes About Songs (2025 Update)
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51. “You can’t start a fire without a spark.”

— Bruce Springsteen

52. “I can’t get any satisfaction.”

— Mick Jagger

53. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

54. “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

55. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”

— Maria von Trapp

56. “In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— Paul McCartney

57. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

— Mick Jagger

58. “I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change.”

— Michael Jackson

59. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

— Jimi Hendrix

60. “Waiting for the end to come, Wishing I had strength to stand, This is not what I had planned, It’s out of my control.”

— Linkin Park

61. “Light up the darkness.”

— Bob Marley

62. “The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.”

— Stephen Chbosky

63. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

— Bob Dylan

64. “We gonna touch the sky.”

— Kanye West

65. “Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

66. “For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”

— Carl Sagan

67. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

68. “Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul...”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

69. “Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.”

— Victor Hugo

70. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

71. “I can’t sing a love song Like the way it’s meant to be Well, I guess I’m not that good anymore But baby, that’s just me.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

72. “Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.”

— Willie Nelson

73. “And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”

— Khalil Gibran

74. “It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.”

— Blaise Pascal

75. “The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.”

— Amy Grant

76. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...”

— Irving Berlin

77. “Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.”

— Khalil Gibran

78. “Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.”

— Al-Ghazali

79. “May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.”

— Bob Dylan

80. “Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.”

— Nelson Mandela

81. “Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

82. “Because you’re mine, I walk the line.”

— Johnny Cash

83. “Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.”

— Jim Morrison

84. “I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream.”

— Neil Young

85. “The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

86. “Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”

— Martin Luther

87. “Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.”

— Pablo Picasso

88. “Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.”

— Roberta Flack

89. “The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink – and in drinking understand themselves.”

— Federico García Lorca

90. “We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

91. “I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”

— Dr. Seuss

92. “I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

93. “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato

94. “Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I’ve got to travel on.”

— Bob Dylan

95. “I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.”

— Frida Kahlo

96. “Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs. I wonder how they feel tonight.”

— Stephen Chbosky

97. “There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.”

— Henry Miller

98. “Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’ is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ are the ultimate one-two punch.”

— Dhani Jones

99. “I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I’ll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.”

— Chris Brown

100. “People ask me what’s like to hear our song on the radio. I don’t know, I don’t listen to the radio.”

— Kurt Cobain