Song Quotes · Page 256

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

— Chris Lowe

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

— George Strait

“Somedays, I feel as if I'm Marc Anthony… and not because I can sing!”

— José N. Harris

All my songs are clean, and I am very careful about the lyrics, too.

— Guru Randhawa

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

— Charles Kelley

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

— Anonymous

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

— Pharrell Williams

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

— Spencer W. Kimball

We never tattle, let God handle that Or let the mob handle that, No soprano Half Black, half white I'm a piano.

— J Cole

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

— Jonathan Lethem

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

— David Byrne

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

— Peter Ham

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody…

— Daryl Hall

All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family.

— Raffi

A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a…

— Camila Cabello

My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to…

— Benji Hughes

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face,…

— India.Arie

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative…

— Kamasi Washington

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual…

— Ian Anderson

I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and…

— Jerry Harrison

You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my…

— Etta James

You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives…

— Maxine Powell

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.

— Amanda Shires

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

— Carlos Santana

I am completely invested in my music - committed to it full time.

— Ananya Birla

“In a roundabout way, Boba Fett created Pearl Jam.”

— Chuck Klosterman

I like going around everywhere and singing to people.

— Mason Ramsey

All music has to speak in some form or other.

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

— Andrew Bird

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

— Asa Butterfield

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

— Ice T

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

— Bruce Springsteen

Every song ends, but is that a reason not to enjoy the music?

— Anonymous

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

— Julia Holter

The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.

— Marian McPartland

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”

— Anthony Doerr

I started on the drums when I was eight.

— Masego