Song Quotes · Page 283

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

— Adam Rich

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

— Mark Hoppus

What would the world be like without men and music?

— Margaret Warde

Music is what I care about. Not material things.

— Louis Walsh

It is love that heals and music is the one thing that speaks to all our souls.

— Liz Mitchell

All musicians are potential band leaders.

— Thelonious Monk

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

— Justin Tranter

A song about our love will never see the light of day.

— Big Sean

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex,…

— Paul McCartney

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors -…

— Dave Grohl

As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song…

— Burton Cummings

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

— Craig Finn

“The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.”…

— Kimberly Novosel

My mom has pictures of me at four years old at the turntable, reaching up to play the records. I feel like…

— Dr Dre

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything…

— Janina Gavankar

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it…

— Lianne La Havas

Base booming bout to make your body feel numb, pulsations probably penetrate your skeleton. This little diddley definitely demonstrates some, dum diddley…

— Will I Am

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny…

— Vonda Shepard

I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is…

— Claudio Abbado

“God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the community of God join in…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is…

— Bent Saether

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature.…

— Tori Amos

For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.…

— William Romaine

I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end…

— Cristian Machado

The more music I do, the more I want to do.

— Jonita Gandhi

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

— Alanis Morissette

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

— Sean Lennon

“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

— Tommy Chong

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

— George Russell

“Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.”

— Hrishikesh Agnihotri

I don't like to collect music. I don't want it if only I liked it.

— Seungri

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

— Jim Carroll

“When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament.”

— Pearl Cleage

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

— Paul Robeson

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

— Marcello Giordani

I'll write whenever I can and I'll use whatever instrument is around.

— Melody Gardot

Love the music in yourself, not yourself in the music.

— Jon Peter Lewis

You don't have to be singing songs about angst and pain to be credible.

— Tony Kanal

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

— Mike Portnoy