Song Quotes · Page 212

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

— Tennessee Williams

I learned to sing as I was learning to talk.

— Jihae

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

— Miles Davis

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.

— Napoleon Hill

Westside Gunn is the architect of the Griselda sound.

— Benny the Butcher

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

— Neige

Lets post quotes off of songs and NOT think for ourselves.

— Karishma Brahmbhatt

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

— Mary Timony

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of…

— Vinnie Paul

You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.

— Derek Trucks

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that…

— Jonas Carpignano

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a…

— Vera Nazarian

I love Los Angeles, and I've secretly always wanted to do a song about Los Angeles, but it's a hard thing to…

— Greg Kurstin

Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles

— Anonymous

I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make…

— Chubby Checker

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose…

— Agnes Repplier

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women…

— Marilynne Robinson

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got…

— Johnny Cash

You know for some strange reason I like to write the verse first. I mean I know the majority of people do…

— Big Daddy Kane

Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like,…

— Leona Lewis

I got an email from my dad after the Super Bowl, and he was like, "Will you send me all of the…

— Caitlin Rose

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my…

— Ed Sheeran

I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got…

— Elvis Presley

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

— Dr. Dre

“The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own.”

— Ally Condie

I like music that expresses what I think.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I like to write songs that people can identify with and sing along to.

— Jay Sean

I already committed Darren [Criss] to giving a song.

— Max Adler

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

— Ben Folds

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

— Leo Ornstein

I think I've always had this thing where it's music first.

— Bonobo

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

— Ilaiyaraaja

If my heart could play a song for you. It would still be the same song.

— Lars Propst

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters.

— Jimmy Butler

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan”

— Barbara Post-Askin

Friendship is a wonderful song it all melody thrill'S all a long.

— Chinna

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

— Butch Trucks

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

— Little Richard

Praise is the rehearsal for our eternal song.

— Charles Spurgeon