Song Quotes · Page 265

We're not the kind of band that writes very well on the road.

— Tony Kanal

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

— Roald Dahl

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

— Ryan Tedder

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

— Paul McCartney

“Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.”

— Greil Marcus

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

— Anonymous

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

— Jodi Picoult

Ramones' songs are too good not to be played.

— Marky Ramone

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

— Kit Harington

I find songs today very fake. I can't write according to the meter, but I can write from my heart.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and…

— Celine Dion

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years…

— Pat Smear

I love my mom. I think my mom is responsible for me loving music and being in music because she subjected it…

— Maria Brink

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good,…

— Mary J. Blige

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

— Alexander Pope

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very…

— Flume

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...)…

— Varg Vikernes

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express.…

— Negash Ali

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't,…

— Nick Cave

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of…

— George Jones

I guess my biggest influence was actually my Grandfather. He used to play old records on vinyl, and would play old jazz…

— Ella Henderson

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying…

— Kim Shattuck

I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still…

— John Congleton

I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture…

— Margaret Cho

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

— Igor Stravinsky

There’s always some level of optimism in every single song.

— Nate Ruess

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

— Joe Bonamassa

Richard Landis is a modern-day Mozart, almost.

— Lorrie Morgan

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

— Charles Lloyd

Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

— Gemma Arterton

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

— Alanis Morissette

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

Funny how 90% of the songs is based on something that's so painful.

— Anonymous

Sometimes the lyrics just fall out of my mouth.

— Eddie Rabbitt

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

— Jose Bergamin

I don’t need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard.

— Kaskade

Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts.

— Anonymous

“Aren't people just like gramophone records?”

— Agatha Christie

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.

— Jens Lekman

Music comes to me more readily than words.

— Ludwig van Beethoven