Song Quotes · Page 428

Otis Redding was the ultimate 60s soul singer. We only get an indication of what he might have become, but he had…

— Mick Hucknall

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

— Vijay Iyer

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

— Keith Moon

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that…

— John Denver

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

— Hugh Laurie

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked…

— Steven Adler

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

— Keith Richards

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

— Mark Heard

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an…

— Tony Bennett

I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody…

— Dawn Richard

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles…

— Finn Wolfhard

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our…

— Karen DeCrow

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and…

— Steve Forbert

“‪I recorded an amazing song on 4 November 2015.
It was the one. I waited so Long for this moment & am grateful…

— Lisa Goldin

“They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people…

— Kent Nerburn

To you, they're just a band. they just play music. they are a bunch a tattoed freaks. but to me, they are…

— Kaylee Newton

Never underestimate the Therapeutic Power... of Driving and Listening to very Loud Music...

— Anonymous

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for…

— Chino Moreno

“Let the music of words and the literature of notes harmonize within you, for in this symphony of expression, we discover the…

— Ramona I

Our love is like a song, but you wont sing along because you've forgotten about me.

— Patience

Nirahua is like my brother and therefore, I sang one of the songs from his film Border.'

— Khesari Lal Yadav

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at…

— Nick Valensi

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

— George Harrison

That's what music is all about, vibes. That's what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.

— Mike Will Made It

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

— Dusty Hill

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

— Edward Abbey

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

— Al Yankovic

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

— Norah Jones

I love making songs that I'm super proud of. I love when I finish a song and I'm like, 'Okay, we got…

— Ice Spice

I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers.…

— Al Green

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool…

— Tim Kinsella

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and…

— Josh Tillman

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors.…

— Tom Waits

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

— Steve Hackett

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

— Adam Yauch

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

— Victor Frederick Weisskopf

I'd rather sell 10,000 records that represent me than 2 million that don't represent me at all.

— Phillip Phillips

Trying to forget the person you once loved is not easy because a song is all it needs to remember all.

— Chee Vai Tang

In my time, we didn't know songs could last. All we ever thought of was next Tuesday. You never imagined a future.

— Donovan

Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what…

— Butch Trucks