Song Quotes · Page 356

The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.

— Craig Finn

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

— Eddie Vedder

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

— Robert Wyatt

Taking your time with music is real important to me.

— Ray J

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

— Kendrick Lamar

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

— Robert Browning

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

— Victoria de los Angeles

When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.

— Devin Townsend

I like a song, I download it, I listen to it a million times, and then I can't stand it.

— Anonymous

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like…

— Kenny G

You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz.

— Russell Simmons

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For…

— Duff McKagan

One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry.

— Charles M. Schulz

“Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.”

— Thea Harrison

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

— Joni Mitchell

I spent my life on the road touring, and a lot of the songs are written in tour buses and hotel rooms.

— Passenger

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm…

— Nate Ruess

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs…

— Patricia Barber

I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the…

— Charles Kelley

If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have…

— Sathya Sai Baba

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic…

— Vivienne Westwood

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin,…

— Arundhati Roy

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as…

— George Benson

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and…

— Anonymous

Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

— Mohit Chauhan

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more

— George Strait

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

— Sarah McLachlan

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

— Edgar Winter

I love Mozart, but I often make a terrible hash of it.

— Simon Rattle

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

— Anonymous

“Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon…Nonagon!”

— They Might Be Giants

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

— Ben Gibbard

“Still wearin' Chucks and singin' out of tune I see.”

— Madeline Sheehan

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

— Thomas Fuller

Especially with music, people want confidence.

— Grimes

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

— Dave Grohl

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

— Charley Pride

I really don't want my daughters to know me for being that guy who sings songs.

— Dan Reynolds

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

— Adam Duritz

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

— Mahatma Gandhi