Song Quotes · Page 122

You shouldn't have to follow fashion to make music.

— John Waite

I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.

— Gary Rossington

My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.

— Joe Calzaghe

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

— Robert Moog

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

— Ellie Goulding

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

— Mandy Patinkin

For me, I'm going to try to make my favorite song over the most popular song.

— Finneas

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

— Anonymous

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

— Christina Aguilera

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

— David Gilmour

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

— Marian McPartland

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had…

— Nancy Wilson

If I sing it, then I wrote it, even if I didnt sing it, write the lyric, make a millie, let another…

— Ne-yo

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

— Barbara Januszkiewicz

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners…

— Norman Granz

I think if you're going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if…

— Melanie Martinez

When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved…

— Thelma Houston

If I'm talking about girls and stuff, it's usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are…

— Lil Uzi Vert

Im a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination it wouldve been great.…

— Emma Stone

I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously,…

— Sondre Lerche

Loving a band with all your heart is something you understand when it happens to you. On the surface, others can see…

— Alex Gaskarth

“Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take…

— M.T. Anderson

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...

— Amy Winehouse

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

— Serj Tankian

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

— Gary Cole

“Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.”

— Terry Eagleton

“Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.”

— Dave Marsh

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

— Frank Zappa

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

— Djuna Barnes

All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.

— Eddie Martinez

The song has ended, but the melody still lingers on.

— Anonymous

If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.

— Ananya Birla

The blues has been in my life since I was little.

— Lenny Henry

Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

— Burt Bacharach

You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

— Avi Kaplan

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

— Rosanna Arquette

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

— Robert Quine