Song Quotes · Page 526

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

Like a song of love that clings to me. How the thought of you does things to me.

— Natalie Cole

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

— Earl Thomas

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

— Bela Bartok

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

— Billy Sherwood

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

— Mick Taylor

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

— Carlos Santana

We should be able to write songs for a new album every six months. If you think about it, it's not a…

— John Gourley

Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from…

— Wynton Marsalis

I think the main objective is to move people, make people think in their heart. I personally am not interested in appealing…

— Joe Satriani

When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the…

— Bradford Cox

I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in…

— Vladimir Putin

The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had…

— Ken Burns

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to…

— Holly Near

My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my…

— Synyster Gates

I feel like all of my records have potential to be hits. Sometimes it's promotion, sometimes it's bad timing, but yeah I…

— Rico Love

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song;…

— Isaiah

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

— Eli Siegel

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

— St. Vincent

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to…

— Netta Barzilai

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

— Bruce Springsteen

We don't tell you what to think or believe in. That's not our job. We're rock musicians. Our job is to rock.

— Sonny Sandoval

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James

Today I feel like it's about people just looking fresh and their records aren't fresh.

— Pusha T

I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.

— Gulzar

“There's so many,' Richie says. His voice is molasses slow. 'So many of us,' he says. 'Hitting. The wrong keys. Wandering against.…

— Jesmyn Ward

In my home, we listened to music all the time. I was raised through music, and I've been interested in it since…

— Khalid

Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors…

— Eric Johnson

You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.

— Rhonda Byrne

A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

— Mason Cooley

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays…

— B. B. King

Some people think my singing is superb. But they're mainly on strong medication and not allowed out much.

— Pierce Brosnan

Sometimes its not the song that makes you emotional, its the people and things that come to your mind when you here…

— Anonymous

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

— Dimebag Darrell

If you wanna get with me there's some things you gotta know. I like my beats fast and my bass down low.

— Dev

“Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony: A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I…

— Frances Densmore

I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.

— Lindsey Buckingham

“Selling rock ’n’ roll is like trying to sell a house built from asbestos. It’s no use and it will fucking kill…

— Luke Haines