Song Quotes · Page 233

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

— Paul Taylor

We're not the kind of band that writes very well on the road.

— Tony Kanal

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

— Roald Dahl

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

— Paul McCartney

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

— Ryan Tedder

Ramones' songs are too good not to be played.

— Marky Ramone

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

— Jodi Picoult

“Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.”

— Greil Marcus

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

— Satyajit Ray

Everyone was messaging me like, 'Yo, 'Rubbin Off the Paint' goes hard.' Everybody in school knew it. The teachers know my song.

— YBN Nahmir

Music expresses the emotions that are hardest to show, the words are the words you wish you could say, music is the…

— Sarah Moores

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound…

— Anonymous

Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the…

— Armaan Malik

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

— Kelli O'Hara

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big…

— Neneh Cherry

There's three guitar players from Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gary Rossington, Steve Gaines and Allen Collins and even the new guys. I just…

— 3 Doors Down

I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more…

— Jason Pierce

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you…

— Bonnie Raitt

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I…

— Bethany Cosentino

I love when people will say, "Oh, my songs are my children." I understand that, but I'm also not afraid to kill…

— Adam Granduciel

I believe it was Nat King Cole that my dad took me to see, and we were sitting in the dressing room,…

— Johnny Mathis

Bands like - even Kiss to a degree - bands like Kiss and Motley, Ratt, Poison, Bon Jovi - I just think…

— John Corabi

“I had memorised Deep Purple’s Made in Japan note for note. Every drumbeat, every thud of Ian Paice’s bass-drum beater, I had…

— Bruce Dickinson

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

— Anonymous

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

— Nate Ruess

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

— Igor Stravinsky

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

— Eddie Rabbitt

Funny how 90% of the songs is based on something that's so painful.

— Anonymous

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

— Alanis Morissette

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

— Charles Lloyd

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

— Gemma Arterton

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

— Joe Bonamassa

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

— Lorrie Morgan

I don’t need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard.

— Kaskade

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

— Anonymous

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

— Jose Bergamin

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.

— Mustard

Music comes to me more readily than words.

— Ludwig van Beethoven