Song Quotes · Page 1,109

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears.…

— David Ogden Stiers

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of…

— John Zorn

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has…

— John Petrucci

That was the first sound in the song of love! Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. Hands of invisible…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pines' is a different kind of album for me. It was a different approach, everything about it, I just went at it…

— Alison Sudol

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what…

— Matt Corby

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or…

— Lil Durk

Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition…

— George Gershwin

I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can…

— David Copperfield

I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of…

— PartyNextDoor

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very…

— Andy Summers

As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of the gospel. Imagine the songs…

— Matt Chandler

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that…

— Steven Tyler

I was in New York in 2014. It was still cold outside. I was sitting there working on 'Exchange' and 'Right My…

— Bryson Tiller

The goal is that people will find something of themselves in it. But you don't need to know what a hexachord is!…

— Missy Mazzoli

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding.…

— Harvey Fierstein

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to…

— Travis Barker

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as…

— Shel Silverstein

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.…

— Wayne Kramer

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge…

— Todd Rundgren

“Some sample lyrics I think I catch: "My engine races up to seventh gear; wrap your legs around my engine, dear .…

— Rusty Fischer

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my…

— Jhene Aiko

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to…

— Petra Haden

For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to…

— Pablo Casals

I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe…

— Lesley Gore

When I was 17, death metal and extreme hardcore was the best music in the world to me. But as I got…

— Oliver Sykes

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so…

— Stevie Nicks

I need all kinds of songs - fast ones, slow ones, minor key, ballads, rumbas - and they all get juggled around…

— Bob Dylan

It feels like your subconscious can be way ahead of you, as a songwriter. You can write a song that you think…

— KT Tunstall

I was going on this desert adventure with some friends and we were like, "How amazing would it be to just drag…

— Lykke Li

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the…

— Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

[Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg,…

— Jon Gordon

“The holes of the ears are very small and can be filled with any insignificant sound, so how can they receive as…

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think…

— Johnny Ramone

When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero in…

— Elvis Presley

The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists…

— Amit Trivedi

“He stares at the cellist, and feels himself relax as the music seeps into him. He watches as the cellist's hair smoothes…

— Steven Galloway

I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any…

— Corey Taylor

I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like…

— Glen Campbell