Song Quotes · Page 470

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a…

— Sammy Hagar

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so…

— Mick Jagger

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing…

— Belinda Carlisle

I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.

— Laufey

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling…

— Rihanna

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

You’re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you

— Demi Lovato

“Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted…

— Kyo Maclear

“Fifteen years ago, the cultural critic Greil Marcus wrote of Jimi's performance of our national anthem as "his great NO to the…

— Michael Lang

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he…

— Freddie Hubbard

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis…

— Philip Bailey

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end…

— Nick Cave

When I first heard the minstrel banjo - I played a gourd first - I almost lost my mind. I was like,…

— Rhiannon Giddens

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a…

— Sam Amidon

I've been debating with people over what an album actually means in 2018. Certain artists who have paid their dues and proven…

— Jessie Reyez

Confusion starts to rhyme in this melody I sing. Questions filled my mind, puzzlement is all it brings.

— Cleo

John Bonham, probably the greatest drummer ever - all of us wanted to play drums like him.

— Vinnie Paul

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke…

— Melanie Martinez

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang…

— Shusaku Endo

Any of the bands that came out at the same time as us, they're either gone now, or they got just mega…

— Wayne Static

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter…

— Laurence Sterne

The thing for me though, is that songs are good depending on the memories I have with them.

— George Ezra

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

— Kenny G

There are a lot of different ways you can be a part of this music and love it and make a contribution…

— Jon Gordon

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

— Big Daddy Kane

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when…

— Blackbear

Remember that song that you let me listen to last time, well even though I didnt like it that much, because of…

— Josephine

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir…

— Katherine Reay

“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.”

— David Mitchell

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.”

— Abigail Biddinger

To us the music is the most important element and they lyrics are something that adds an extra element.

— Ron Mael

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

— Ricky Martin

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without…

— Mark Twain

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

— Tony Kanal

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

— Rod Stewart

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

— Neville Marriner

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve