Song Quotes · Page 301

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

Music is life. It can get you through your toughest times.

— Anonymous

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

— Matthew Ramsey

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

— Chris O'Donnell

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

— Paul McCartney

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

— Steve Lacy

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

— Mike Will Made It

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

— Tarja Turunen

There is really no drama. We have been playing in a band since we were, like, five.

— Alana Haim

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.…

— Roy Orbison

I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive.

— Dolly Parton

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better…

— Kurt Elling

I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna…

— Matthew Ramsey

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people…

— Guy Fieri

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist…

— Mark Lanegan

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place…

— Jon Foreman

I'm not ruling out music forever. I'd love to do that, but if I ever did, I don't think it would be…

— Maia Mitchell

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling…

— Jon Landau

I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more…

— Sonny Sharrock

Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll…

— John Landis

I'm just about the best singer I know, and it's time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my…

— Daryl Hall

I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.

— Chad Gilbert

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

— Amy Winehouse

I've always had a very broad taste in music.

— Paul Wardingham

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

— Dionne Warwick

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

— Charlie Chaplin

To me, the best devotional song is 'Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava.'

— Devi Sri Prasad

Music is something that should give you peace.

— Atif Aslam

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

— Chance The Rapper

I have listened to different kinds of music since I was young.

— Jackson Wang

I was playing music since I was 6 or 7. I felt that music was a given to me.

— Gabriella Wilson

Singing has an impact on the human body.

— Alison Sudol

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.

— Kaskade

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me

— Christina Rossetti

Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

— Jesse McCartney

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

— Utah Phillips