Song Quotes · Page 130

I want people to go deep into my music like Baton Rouge does.

— Boosie

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

— David Byrne

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

— Bob Dylan

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

— Jarvis Cocker

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

— Anne Hathaway

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

— Keanu Reeves

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

— Paulina Rubio

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

— M. Shadows

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like…

— Holly Near

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has…

— Peter Warlock

“Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

— William Gay

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

— Bob Hope

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

— Avril Lavigne

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

— Philip Doddridge

Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every…

— Luis Miguel

I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it…

— Glenn Gould

When somebody brings me a record to mix, usually they feel like they can only get it so far with who they…

— John Congleton

Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have…

— India Arie

I think Sepultura, I have to say 'Refuse/Resist' is one of my favorite riffs. It's really energetic and I love the song.…

— Max Cavalera

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and…

— George Benson

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And…

— Jack White

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro…

— Ronnie Montrose

There are always ups and down in every artiste's career.

— Nikita Thukral

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

— Chris Lowe

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

— Bebe Neuwirth

I have too many options when it comes to guitars.

— Rick Nielsen

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

— NF

“Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.”

— William Congreve

The only thing wrong with my voice is the way it sounds.

— The D.O.C

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

— Neil Young

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

— Osbert Lancaster

Music is the language of the heart without words.

— Shinichi Suzuki

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

— Tania James

I be knowing when a song's gonna be a hit.

— Sexyy Red

I like to think my music is of another world.

— Ravyn Lenae

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.

— Stefon Harris

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

— Steve Lacy