Song Quotes · Page 253

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

— Rich Brian

I think I just really, really love singing.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

— Grace Slick

Music touches you emotionally where words alone can't.

— Johnny Depp

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

— Lyndon LaRouche

...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...

— Anonymous

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

— Dianne Reeves

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

— Ronnie Van Zant

“Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.”

— Thea Harrison

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

— Charles M. Schulz

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

My dad didn't want me to listen to Zeppelin, I think because it reminded him of his wilder days, and now he's…

— Aaron Paul

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

— John Michael Hayes

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created…

— Kat Graham

Brush away any pain that is deep within your heart, For your heart is here to sing to the lovely tune of…

— Bubbly

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice,…

— Yoko Ono

I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone…

— Flying Lotus

“It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just…

— Patrick Ness

The head of a record label sets up structures, but he also defines the sound of the label, which is to describe…

— John Kao

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any…

— Nellie McKay

“Siren Song This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men…

— Margaret Atwood

There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So…

— Peter Frampton

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into…

— John Fogerty

With 'Goddess,' I think the song itself tells such a strong story. And for the music video, we really wanted to do…

— Laufey

I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

— Abigail Washburn

My singing is inspirational. When I sing, the people around me sing louder.

— Rock Cowles

I always make music that is true to my spirit.

— Wynonna Judd

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

— Kevin Richardson

I'm on Spotify and Soundcloud all the time.

— Edith Bowman

“There's no right or wrong in music, you know? Just everything in between.”

— Sarah Dessen

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

— Seamus Heaney

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

— Tim Curry

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

— Percy Heath

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

— Courtney Love

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

— Denis Lawson

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

— Charlie Parker

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

— Ray Charles

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

— Ingrid Bergman

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.

— Sherilyn Fenn

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

— Paul McCartney