Song Quotes · Page 197

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

— Pras Michel

My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.

— Luke Hemmings

It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz.

— Herbie Hancock

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

— Rosanne Cash

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

— Charlie Parker

I'm a drummer that's what really I am, and it's gone downhill from there!

— David Essex

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

— Celine Dion

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...

— Ben Horowitz

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway…

— Jimmy Page

I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.

— Aphex Twin

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

— Eddie Van Halen

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

— Bryce Dessner

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.

— David Platt

I know that I can't find. That song going round in my head. Like the last things you said.

— Jamie Cullum

A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go.

— Dennis Edwards

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that…

— J. J. Johnson

Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop…

— Bekka Bramlett

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and…

— Jonny Lang

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,…

— Honore de Balzac

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair…

— Dan Smith

I feel very strongly about letting people know I'm proud of who I am. I want people to know when they hear…

— Nomi Ruiz

“ I didn't know I was lost Until you found me I never knew what love was Until you touched my hand…

— Christine Zolendz

From the start, I held the pick in an unusual way. I used to bend my thumb way back in order to…

— Paul Gilbert

I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than…

— Kevin Parker

For me every song's like pussy so fuck it

— Anonymous

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

— Madonna Ciccone

Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

— Jane Chen

Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

— Kenny Chesney

Musicians have been political literally since people were writing songs.

— Maggie Rogers

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

— Fiona Apple

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

— Frank Zappa

Ambient music is intended to induce calm and a space to think.

— Brian Eno

'Woman Up' is a fun female empowerment song.

— Ashley Roberts

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

— Dan Fogelberg

You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.

— Stuart Price

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

— David Allan Coe

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

— Cat Stevens

Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

— Andy Gilbert

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

— Dan Auerbach

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

— J. J. Johnson