Song Quotes · Page 152

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

— Steve Winwood

You can listen to the records and know: We're really street.

— Lil Jon

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

— Geddy Lee

I can't do a film where I appear in a song and then disappear.

— Shweta Tripathi

We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

— Rozonda Thomas

Alright boys, this is her favorite song.

— Trace Adkins

Music isn't just noise...music is another source of life...

— Tim Walters

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

— Shawn Mendes

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some…

— Fred Hammond

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to…

— Amy Grant

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

— Joe Bonamassa

I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan! 'Number of the Beast?' I'm like, Well, I can't wear that T-shirt so much anymore.

— Jonathan Roumie

It's not always the song itself that makes you emotional, but the person or event that comes to mind when you hear…

— Nishan Panwar

Music gets you through hard times, helps heal your heart, is always there on your good days and never leaves you alone…

— Anonymous

When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of…

— Hamid Drake

“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer…

— Arthur Golden

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol… If you think of Om only as a…

— Amit Ray

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina…

— Brendon Urie

Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more…

— Adam Gopnik

It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are…

— Wynton Marsalis

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly…

— Peter Gallagher

I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that…

— Neil Diamond

For me, music, in the truest sense of the word, is about making people happy.

— Andrew W.K

In school I had piano lessons as a child for about two years.

— Melody Gardot

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I believe that life is a prize,but to live doesnt mean youre alive.

— Nicki Minaj

Lord knows, I love a brainless pop song.

— Jake Shears

I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.

— Robbie Jones

It's Always about the music, never about anything else

— Eddie Van Halen

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not

— Tommy Shaw

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music requires a lot of attention and concentration.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

— Adam Granduciel

I wish I could be a professional singer.

— Sanam Saeed

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Real-life experiences will probably end up in my music.

— Ronan Keating

Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.

— John Prine

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures.

— Michael Benjamin Lerner