Song Quotes · Page 148

It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.

— Zach Condon

I am a Bengali guy from Kolkata, who started singing at the age of 10.

— Soham Chakraborty

Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over.

— Kurt Cobain

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

— James Brown

“Music is an art, if not a part, You are just another stubborn sort...:)”

— Babu Rajan

My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.

— Stephen Hough

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

— Sarah McLachlan

I like to think we're like a cross between Pink Floyd and Slayer.

— Shavo Odadjian

“The changes in her are like music missing the refrain. The song's transformed, though what's left remains familiar.”

— Corrine Jackson

When we made 'North Hills,' I had never heard Warren Zevon, and I never heard the Grateful Dead. I had never heard…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

— Judith Durham

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go…

— Ringo Starr

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and…

— Keren Ann

“Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up.”

— Jarod Kintz

I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Sushan

Even if you have one band that's your favorite in the whole world, don't listen to only that band. There's a lot…

— Josh Freese

The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean…

— Beth Hart

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without…

— Paul Bley

We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or…

— Neil Young

It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such…

— Steve Vai

I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was…

— Mario Cantone

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in…

— Tom Lehrer

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit…

— Alison Krauss

I've been wanting to do a Christmas song for forever.

— Lil Jon

Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.

— Jakob Dylan

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

— Gordon Getty

Music helps me escape the reality I live in.

— Anonymous

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

— Saint Augustine

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

— Stephen Colbert

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

— Kelly Jones

I don't want to do the normal dance track song.

— Megan McKenna

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

— Sheridan Smith

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

— Dave Mustaine

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

— Hannah Simone

If breakups never existed the music industry would go bankrupt.

— Alisa Gattus

Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground

— Demi Lovato

“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”

— Jodi Picoult

The earth has music for those who listen.

— George Santayana

Somehow, my music really suits doctors making out in the syringe room.

— Mat Kearney