Song Quotes · Page 243

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

— James Vincent McMorrow

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

— Joey Jordison

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

— Sturgill Simpson

Im writing a song about my penis, I'm not done yet

— Anonymous

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

— Alice Walker

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

— David Gilmour

If there's some longevity with Black Sabbath, then I'd like to be a part of it.

— Bill Ward

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

— Diana DeGarmo

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

— John Denver

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit…because without spirit, music is just notes.

— Steve Turre

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

— Gabrielle Aplin

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

— Joan Jett

“A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.”

— Wendell Berry

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

— Elvis Costello

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality -…

— Skrillex

“What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?” Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, “Myself.”

— Anonymous

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used…

— Jack White

I don't feel any kind of a responsibility (other than to myself) to write "weighty" lyrics. In fact I sometimes wish I…

— Stuart Adamson

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not…

— Gene Ween

Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my mind, when I was greatly agitated over something.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man…

— Tom Waits

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning…

— Lorne Balfe

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and…

— Jim Cole

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like…

— Tracy Chapman

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

— Ramin Djawadi

“...No song, no peace, no poetry, no end of days, and no forgetting.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

— Paul McCartney

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

— George Gershwin

Whenever I write a song I see the whole song anyway.

— Rakim

I feel really different from other musicians.

— Mary Timony

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

— Hedda Hopper

Don't worry, be happy! Just like the song. So simple yet so true!

— Kristen Taekman

There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend.

— Demetri Martin

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

— Shinichi Suzuki

I want to have a movement with my music.

— Danny Gokey

I'm not saying I'm God. But as far as lyrics, I'm God MC.

— Jay-Z

Whenever I see a piano, I just play on it.

— Lil Mosey

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

— James Murphy

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

— Eric Whitacre

“Music is a powerful way for people to express themselves”

— Nina LaCour