Song Quotes · Page 274

In times like this... music is the only one that helps

— James

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

— Johnny Mercer

I am a bathroom singer, that's for sure, and that's where I will remain!

— Athiya Shetty

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.

— Jim Coleman

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

— Judy Collins

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

— Rita Coolidge

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

— Charlie Watts

The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

— Daniel Tosh

'Meri Odhe Naal' is a traditional Punjabi song and our constant endeavor is to traditionally urbanize the folk sound and bring it…

— Neha Bhasin

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't…

— Chad Hurley

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making…

— Jack Garratt

I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.

— Michael Benjamin Lerner

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

— Keala Settle

I don't hate any sort of music but I just think that the lyricism needs to be in the forefront.

— Joell Ortiz

“Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.”

— Mary Pope Osborne

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

— T Bone Burnett

I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just…

— Nick Murphy

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of…

— Ani DiFranco

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on…

— Dave Mustaine

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe…

— Rufus Wainwright

“All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes…

— Ann Patchett

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This…

— Jimmy Page

When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a…

— Daniel Levitin

“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included…

— Nicholas Wade

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

— Phillips Brooks

We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop.

— Def Leppard

For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles.

— Kurt Cobain

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

— Five for Fighting

My sister is a singer, my father is a singer.

— David Alaba

I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.

— T-Bone Walker

“He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.”

— Pat Conroy

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

— Steven Hall

Bach is the beginning and end of all music.

— Max Reger

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— Shiajohnson123

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

— Gary Cherone

I like hooks and choruses, things people can sing to.

— Steve Miller

I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

— Patti Smith

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

— Joe Root