Song Quotes · Page 121

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

— Nick Frost

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

— Rachel Held Evans

Singing la la la la. Singing oh oh, oh oooh. Music makes me lose control.

— Inna

The only songs I would learn were songs that moved me emotionally.

— B. J. Thomas

“the jukebox blares a Def Leopard tune.”

— Winter Renshaw

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

— Rebecca West

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

— James Gibbons

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

— Christina Milian

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

— Giorgio Moroder

There's too many favorite songs, so I'll just say right now my favorite song of all time is 'Poison' by Bert Jansch.

— Kurt Vile

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

— Georg Solti

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles…

— Leonard Cohen

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

— George Harrison

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go…

— Joe Elliott

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

— Ronald Harwood

You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's…

— Zach Condon

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no…

— Anonymous

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely…

— Haruki Murakami

I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what…

— Kiki Dee

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away…

— Chris Martin

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to…

— Lenny Breau

Rock 'n' roll is not unlike love. You find it oddly strangely comforting that no matter how old you get, when it…

— Gord Downie

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That…

— Brie Larson

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting…

— Paul Gauguin

Outside of Christ, my songs have no value

— Larry Norman

I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.

— John Corabi

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

— Joe Cocker

My Dad was just a working man. He was a good man and he loved music.

— B. J. Thomas

The life I love is making music with my friends.

— Willie Nelson

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

— Alan Jackson

“If you ask me, music is the language of memories.”

— Jodi Picoult

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

— Bjork

I grew up listening to New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe because of my parents.

— Caleb McLaughlin

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

— Tre Cool

“You are my favorite song; a rhythm of beauty that captures my spirit.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Music is happiness with a steady pulse.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

— Lawrence Welk

Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.

— Amish Tripathi

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

— Adam Levine

In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

— Tom Stoppard