Song Quotes · Page 125

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

— Jerome Kern

Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.

— Adnan Sami

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

— Anonymous

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

I sure love to write songs, but I'm not so sure of my voice.

— J. J. Cale

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

— Diana Gabaldon

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

— Dan Hill

Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

— Michael Gira

I was listening 'Plastic Ono Band,' the John Lennon album a lot, and that might have had some inspiration on me.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to…

— Duke Ellington

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

— Robert Glasper

I was short and I had a really high voice, and now my voice is low and I'm tall.

— Greyson Chance

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would…

— Mark Foster

“Dude: What do Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common? Me: The wall was their last hit.”

— Jason Myers

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as…

— Bruce Springsteen

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we…

— Alfred Noyes

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am…

— Teddy Pendergrass

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes while performing time itself seems to stop when you hit your notes just right. The music glides between the pores of…

— Jasinda Wilder

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think…

— Taylor Swift

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that…

— David Hyde Pierce

“If life is a song, and God is the divine conductor, I must consider these trials and troubles as the harmony of…

— Evinda Lepins

To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

— E-40

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

— Alice Cooper

The Stax/Volt stuff is really what I grew up on.

— Michael McDonald

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.

— Nate Ruess

A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.

— Norah Jones

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

— John Lydon

The Sadies have the ability to create soundscapes, and to put you in places.

— Gord Downie

They write songs about California girls for a reason.

— Sarah Mlynowski

My music is super vulnerable, raw, and intimate.

— Selah Louise Marley

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

— Noel Gallagher

There is danger in singing someone else's song.

— Don G. Campbell

“A Love Supreme' is Coltrane's best-known and best-selling album.”

— Lewis Porter

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

— Jack White

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

— Alice Ripley