Song Quotes · Page 260

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

— Neil Young

My music is what keeps me going and so it goes with me wherever I go.

— Tanishk Bagchi

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

— Mike McCready

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

— Vanessa Carlton

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

— Kurt Vile

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

— John Armstrong

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

— Elizabeth Moon

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

— Avril Lavigne

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

— Bob Gaudio

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

That's right, I take vocal lessons - done it for years. There's nothing wrong with it.

— Joe Bonamassa

I don't sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it's getting worse.

— Bing Crosby

A song always haves to have the best beat no matter if the lyrics are good or bad.

— $Teady

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect…

— Lou Barlow

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

— Neil Innes

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to…

— Pinetop Perkins

“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top…

— Walt Whitman

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room…

— Upton Sinclair

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

— Allan Bloom

I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a…

— Ester Dean

Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the…

— John Carter Cash

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or…

— David Byrne

On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on…

— Eduard Hanslick

'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their response was,…

— Thomas Rhett

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

— Boosie

“nothing will ever understand our pain as well as music does”

— Iva Ursano

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

— Rick Springfield

You only realise the meaning of the words to a song when your upset

— Anonymous

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

— Adam Selzer

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

— Girl Talk

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

— Teddy Wilson

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

— Hunter Hayes

Music takes me to the new dimensional world.

— Ewshy

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

— George Gershwin

I have a strange, not very traditional voice - I'm not Adele.

— Perfume Genius

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

— Neko Case

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

— Rick Nielsen

Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.

— Willie Smith

I'm very surprised at my success as a singing star because I can't sing a lick.

— Divine