Song Quotes · Page 390

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

— Robert Plant

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

— Anonymous

I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.

— Dave Brubeck

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

— Taryn Manning

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

— Abigail Washburn

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

— Euripides

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

— Alicia Keys

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

— Marty Robbins

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

— Jello Biafra

One of these days, when I get tired of it all, I'll keep six guitars and the amps I'm using, and I'll…

— Joe Bonamassa

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done…

— Dustin Lynch

I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.

— Myles Garrett

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

— Joni Mitchell

Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque…

— Richard LaGravenese

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

— Morgan Wallen

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to…

— Varg Vikernes

“Never thought that song "Aa bhi ja...meri jaan" will go viral like this. It's started playing around. Keep the play button on…

— Anuj Tiwari

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights…

— Geoff Downes

My dad was always there, even though he wasn't living in our house. He was always on the phone, always just a…

— Nancy Sinatra

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves…

— Andrew Peterson

I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I…

— Sufjan Stevens

Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in…

— Don McLean

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the…

— Joanna Newsom

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

— Eleanor Bron

All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Just growing up and maturing has made my music so much better.

— Chanel West Coast

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

— Chaka Khan

Evil men have no songs.MHow is it then that the Russians have songs?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I- I love you like a love song, baby And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

— Selena Gomez

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

— Cass McCombs

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

— Hildegard of Bingen

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

— James Levine

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

— Edward Elgar

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

— Conrad Aiken

I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.

— John Newman

That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.

— Michael Penn

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

— Jihae

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

— Neil Diamond

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

— Patricia Barber