Song Quotes · Page 354

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

— Roger Rees

I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life.

— Shruti Haasan

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

— Henry Rollins

I don't think a lot of people know that I can sing. It's not common knowledge.

— Luke Evans

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.

— J. J. Cale

I started playing music when I was really young.

— Aleksa Palladino

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

— Sheryl Crow

U were my favorite song. baby tell me why we had to turn the radio off.

— Ne-yo

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou…

— Lou Reed

I have not yet worked with A.R. Rahman and it is my hearty desire to do so. In Jugni both of us…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs…

— Darrell Wallace Jr

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

— Jennifer Hudson

There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my…

— Tracy Chapman

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

— Conor Oberst

I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to…

— Bruno Mars

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you…

— Layne Staley

“The travelers emerged into a spacious square. In the middle of this square were several dozen people on a wooden bandstand like…

— Vasily Grossman

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear…

— Todd Rundgren

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have…

— PartyNextDoor

Na na na na na na na na yeah You are the music in me You know the words once upon a…

— She's_gone

The music I'm playing now is the music I always imagined myself playing when I was a kid. It's been nice to…

— Marika Hackman

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on?…

— Brice Marden

When I was writing 'Trick it,' the inspiration for this song came out of nowhere! The song is about the little white…

— Dahyun

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.

— Sia

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

— Zubin Mehta

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

— Sonita Alizadeh

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

— George Carlin

Idles are the best band in the whole world.

— Kenny Beats

There isn't anything weird about my music.

— Frank Zappa

You find out about me because of my music, and that's how I want to keep it.

— Megan Thee Stallion

I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.

— Dave Sitek

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

— Pietro Mascagni

“song came on the radio that made me screech with joy.”

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Music's my life, and it always has been.

— Orianthi

There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

— Blake Judd

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

— Enrique Iglesias

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

— Tom Kitt

My mum and dad are massive Bowie fans, so I grew up listening to his music.

— Noel Fielding