Song Quotes · Page 211

There's no grace period between album one and album two.

— Maren Morris

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

“Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.”

— Rob Sheffield

All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.

— Benji Madden

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

— Neil Young

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

— Mike Watt

My mother's music speaks to me as an oracle.

— Selah Louise Marley

“Never believe anything you hear in a song.”

— George R.R. Martin

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

— Thomas Mars

Note to self: not every song that I h ave stuck in my head is appropriate to sing out loud in public.

— Ester Escalante

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people.…

— Mandy Moore

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way.

— Bethany Cosentino

'Manu' is one of the best albums. The climax song will be a trump card for all break-up songs. Everybody will talk…

— Nani

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

“To wake up one day and be Steinway and Glen in One... Glen Steinway, Steinway Glen, all for Bach.”

— Thomas Bernhard

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the…

— Leonard Slatkin

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the…

— Yoko Ono

All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format…

— Rob Halford

The second album will be different I think. We've already got more than ten songs, because we've been writing for a long…

— Alex Turner

I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the…

— Anonymous

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other…

— John Armstrong

Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the…

— Jello Biafra

I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects…

— Jackson Browne

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since…

— Mark Knopfler

I produced a song for Bobby Vee called Get The Message.

— Jimmy Griffin

One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist

— Michael Bolton

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

— Autre Ne Veut

All it takes is ONE song to bring a Thousands of memories!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

— Frank Zappa

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

— Pope John Paul II

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

— E. M. Forster

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

— Paul Hindemith

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

— Branford Marsalis

I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.

— Sharon Jones

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

— Chester Bennington

Music has the ability to comfort people.

— Matthew Morrison

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me...

— Mark E. Smith

“If You Can Breathe, You Can Play Harmonica.”

— Aishwary Sharma

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

— Johnny Winter