Song Quotes · Page 153

Music has always been really important to me.

— Gabrielle Giffords

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

— Ken Kesey

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

— Lou Reed

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

— Julian Ovenden

Things I'm bad at: singing. Things I do a lot: sing.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“There are worse things than dying with a song on your lips.”

— George R.R. Martin

I started playing music at a pretty young age.

— Duncan Sheik

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs.

— Lisa Loeb

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their…

— Bobby McFerrin

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

— Conor Oberst

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

— DJ Shadow

I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.

— Bret Michaels

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

— Bryan Ferry

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

— Dick Dale

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

— Anne-Marie

If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences…

— Dave Douglas

We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired…

— Ron Atchison

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience…

— Joely Fisher

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here.…

— Kerry King

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music…

— Nick Tosches

Sometimes something becomes a lot better. It's like a puzzle . You can't force a round brick into a square. It's a…

— Oh Land

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm…

— Steve Albini

Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do…

— Skylar Grey

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

— King Krule

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

— Eric Clapton

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

— Adrian Dunbar

Music shortens the distance between all people.

— Anonymous

“Music is about more than connecting notes. It connects people!”

— Michele Jennae

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

— Johnny Cash

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

— Sara Bareilles

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

— Stephen R. Donaldson

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

— Dizzee Rascal

I always want to play the songs that people want to hear.

— Chuck Berry

I sing like I talk - soft, with all the words clear.

— Fats Domino

My music is about peace, love, and happiness. Unity. Togetherness.

— Skip Marley

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

— Vinnie Paul

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.

— Taylor Momsen

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

— George Steiner

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey