Song Quotes · Page 373

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

— Anais Nin

Yeah, I'd always wanted to do a song with finger-picked, nylon-string guitar.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.

— Andrew Ridgeley

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

— Julian Bream

“I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.”

— Taylor Swift

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

— Neil Young

I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.

— Raymond Ablack

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

— Jackson Browne

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

— John Lydon

The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.

— Rita Coolidge

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm always writing new songs and doing them live, and I may do it for a week or two, and then never…

— Bob Schneider

“Every word has a meaning, Every work has a reason, Every song has a pain, Every love has a prison.”

— Lalit Majrikar

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination

— Iggy Pop

I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the…

— Rene Marie

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

— Zakk Wylde

“When he hears how songs are now shared and downloaded, Knight is equally unimpressed. "You're using your computers, your thousand-dollar machines, to…

— Michael Finkel

When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality.…

— Phil Elvrum

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial…

— Bryan White

For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies…

— Hilary Rosen

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

Follow me and do exactly what the song says, smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people, and drink, and jump…

— Eminem

I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play…

— Horace Silver

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in…

— Jean Genet

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

— Erich Wolfgang Korngold

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

— Zacky Vengeance

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

— Brenda Lee

I think you just have to have some rapport with the song.

— Eric Bachmann

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

— Henry Rollins

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.

— Tom Waits

The whole truth... sings only -and all lovers are the song

— e. e. cummings

I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.

— Lesley Gore

Every time you fight the scars are gonna heal But they're never gonna go away.

— Simple Plan

Music is your life partner; don't let anybody come between music and you.

— Anonymous

I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

— Jonny Lang

Entrance music doesn't make a difference.

— Rory MacDonald

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

— Frederick Lenz

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

— Warren Zevon

I'm the oldest in my family and do play piano.

— David Lambert