Song Quotes · Page 432

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

— Rupert Grint

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a…

— Jan Garbarek

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

— Frankie Avalon

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle…

— Malcolm Young

I love writing songs for other people, and it's an honor when someone records your songs.

— Ryan Hurd

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.

— McCoy Tyner

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

— Jonathan Lethem

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

— Kamasi Washington

We all record together. We do it live; then, after that, we do overdubs, if we need to, to repair stuff. Usually…

— Rick Nielsen

I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I…

— Jens Lekman

We are all social human beings, so making music is a way to contribute to society, to feel needed, to feel necessary.…

— Erik Wiegand

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk…

— Joanna Newsom

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me.…

— Sivamani

I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by…

— Pete Townshend

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to…

— Brian Austin Green

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could…

— Charlie Siem

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

— Don Herold

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from…

— Noel Gallagher

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

— Gloria Naylor

'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who…

— David Draiman

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

— Taylor Hackford

What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.

— Amine

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

— Jean Gabin

I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.

— Tarja Turunen

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive,…

— Richard F. Thomas

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite…

— Thighpaulsandra

I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was…

— Mabel

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go…

— Till Lindemann

It was only supposed to be on WCW compilation; on that wrestling compilation. And for that I thought it was good. And…

— Kerry King

In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good.

— Lady Gaga

Tears of joy over what I love. Not afraid to say that I'm beyond proud of the music I've been making and…

— Diggy Simmons

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and…

— Gabby Barrett

I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.

— Noel Gallagher

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now…

— Bryan Ferry

I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!

— Richard Marx

I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.

— Bret Michaels

My music is constantly changing because I am. I'm writing it and changing as I'm writing.

— Anne-Marie

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

— Brian Setzer

I thought of Gene Krupa's drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put 'Misirlou' to that rhythm.

— Dick Dale

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

— Bryan Ferry