Song Quotes · Page 393

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

— Flea

I make music for people to hear it, so get it however you want!

— Devin Townsend

We're a band. We're hired for parties. We have to know what to do.

— Gord Downie

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

— Gustav Ejstes

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

— Jimmy Smith

I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.

— Sheryl Lee

I'm not like a university-educated scholar. I just sing what I see.

— Sam Fender

I am one of the few singers who has reinvented oneself with every song.

— Neha Bhasin

I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way.

— Daya

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

— Chet Faker

I think the process of 'I Love It' becoming such a big song opened my eyes to sides of the industry that…

— Charli XCX

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

— Annie Lennox

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

— Bernie Taupin

I use music as a platform to express myself. Everything I put out is me, the me I want people to see.

— NLE Choppa

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that…

— Kevin Morby

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.…

— Frank Gehry

“Music makes everything more romantic, doesn't it? One second you're walking your dog in the suburbs, and then you put on Adele,…

— Jenny Han

Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that…

— Yuna

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a…

— Dudley Moore

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I took a lot of long summer road trips with my dad, and the mix of music we listened to on the…

— Alex Ebert

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles.…

— James Blunt

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I…

— Laura Benanti

My soul is to write ballads - that's what pours out of me, dude.

— Jelly Roll

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

— Gerry Mulligan

If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.

— Jack Lowden

'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.

— Phil Daniels

Music is Love...Music is a universal language...I'm in Love with music.

— Anonymous

To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

— Smokey Robinson

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

— Aimee Mann

I know that I'm dealing with some kind of wound through my music.

— Lykke Li

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

— Leonard Cohen

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

— Daveed Diggs

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul.

— Mac Davis

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

— Condola Rashad

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

— Ziggy Marley

How can I be happy when my songs are converted into a circus?

— Rajesh Roshan