Song Quotes · Page 433

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

— Perfume Genius

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

— Gavin DeGraw

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization…

— John Cage

Knowing a person is like music. What attracts us to them is their melody, and as we get to know who they…

— Anonymous

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

— Rudolf Steiner

Music is the one place where you can lose yourself and find yourself at the same time.

— Nishan Panwar

It's really rare that an entire genre of music allows an artist from a different genre to come and live there.

— Ne-Yo

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

— Martha Reeves

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there,…

— Greg Ginn

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed…

— Travie McCoy

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and…

— Wayne Static

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time…

— Ian Anderson

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try…

— Sheryl Crow

In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as…

— Chuck D

'Dark Side of the Moon' was one of my father's favorite records, which I obviously didn't understand when I was young. To…

— Apparat

“I am living so far behind my time that no one can find me. I am living so far beyond my time…

— Debasish Mridha

With a pop album you can listen to one or two songs from it, but a music album is really an experience.…

— Dylan Baldi

Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.

— Matisyahu

I think I am very disturbing on the set because I am singing all the time. I won't say I am a…

— Mithila Palkar

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

— Richard Lloyd

The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

— Matty Healy

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

— Chuck D

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

— Emily Haines

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

— Toots Thielemans

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan

“Is that why you play the music so loud? A beat to drown out the thoughts, sound so high you cannot think,…

— Courtney Peppernell

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere…

— Paul McCartney

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

— Rory Gallagher

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

— Anonymous

I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would…

— Fergie

What unites us is our culture. You just have to listen to European music, from north, south, east and west, to hear…

— Jack Savoretti

If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.

— John Cooper Clarke

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

— Joe Bonamassa

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to…

— Amy Grant

It's not always the song itself that makes you emotional, but the person or event that comes to mind when you hear…

— Nishan Panwar

Music gets you through hard times, helps heal your heart, is always there on your good days and never leaves you alone…

— Anonymous

I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan! 'Number of the Beast?' I'm like, Well, I can't wear that T-shirt so much anymore.

— Jonathan Roumie

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their…

— Bobby McFerrin

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

— Conor Oberst