Song Quotes · Page 246

The first country song I ever heard was Tim McGraw's 'Don't Take the Girl.'

— Brett Young

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

— Hayley Williams

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

— Ritchie Blackmore

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

— Oscar Levant

“Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

— Roger Waters

Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

— Anonymous

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

— Taylor Swift

A band is a real band if they can play not just their songs, but they can just play.

— Shavo Odadjian

It's been thrown up to me most of my life: Why don't I just concentrate on conducting or composing or my own…

— Andre Previn

If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs.

— Jason Isbell

The older songs were better songs, because they had lyrics with a story to tell. Aretha and Otis told stories.

— Wilson Pickett

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

— Judd Apatow

Some people take that really seriously. There's an art to it and I've watched people drive themselves crazy sequencing an 11, 12 song record.

— Josh Freese

Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid…

— Ryan Adams

When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump…

— Brandi Carlile

The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there,…

— Shelby Lynne

It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano…

— Ian Holloway

My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical…

— Keri Hilson

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different…

— Dar Williams

'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just…

— Dolly Parton

I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find…

— Mose Allison

We didn't want to be tied to that damn teenybopper market. We tried to convince our record company that we could do…

— Eric Carmen

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

— Diljit Dosanjh

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

— Graham Coxon

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

— Angelique Kidjo

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

— Arthur Honegger

I'm kind of inspired by just all different kinds of music.

— BØRNS

I love music, it brings me a lot of joy.

— Jozy Altidore

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

— Adrian Belew

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

He might have been in Led Zeppelin, but to me he was just dad.

— Jason Bonham

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

— Dennis DeYoung

'In the Grace of Your Love' is a beautiful, eerie dance song.

— Max Joseph

It's so different playing with a band as opposed to singing an anthem.

— Susan Tedeschi

When I was in junior high school, I knew I really wanted to sing.

— Dianne Reeves

I have sung every song with the same dedication like I sang my first number.

— Asha Bhosle

Everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want.

— Ray Toro