You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light"—that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that.… The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
—Bob Dylan
Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.
—John Mellencamp
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
—Henry Giles
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart, and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
—Frederick Douglass
I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that.
—Steven Wright
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.
—Frank Zappa
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
—Margaret Mead