Song Quotes · Page 528

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

— Michael Herr

For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

— Maurice Jarre

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

Dear radio, Why do you always play the best song right when I have to turn the car off and get out?!…

— Anonymous

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

Love is just a song which is listen by many but few people will only understand the lyrics of it

— Tjalekganya

I could have guessed it all along, cuz now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me

— Emilie Autumn

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

— Anonymous

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,…

— Bruce Cockburn

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and,…

— Bruce Springsteen

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is…

— Carla Bley

Right when I finish a song and listen to it back and I like it, then I'm, like, psyched. Then I think…

— Alex G

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about…

— Wynton Marsalis

I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify…

— James Hetfield

“If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer. While the wolf waits…

— Louis Sachar

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were…

— Anonymous

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame…

— Pat Martino

I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

— Deborah Joy Winans

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm…

— Ted Leo

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a…

— Kim Shattuck

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty…

— Q-Tip

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

— Iris Murdoch

“You know it is good music when what you listen to spurs you on to create something.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Be it while recording a song or singing to a live audience, I still get nervous. I feel that is very important.…

— Neeti Mohan

All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.

— Bon Scott

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

— Stephen Malkmus

It happens in this business - The Rolling Stones were ripped off, so were the Beatles. George Harrison hardly had anything left…

— Leo Sayer

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to…

— Anonymous

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by…

— Ted Nugent

Linda's in all the songs. 'Sunshine Superman,' 'Hampstead Incident,' 'Young Girl Blues'... Linda's the muse.

— Donovan

'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the…

— J Balvin

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

— J. J. Cale

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

— James Brown

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots…

— Geezer Butler

My grandmother and my mother and my grandfather, their style of praying was - all day long, they would pray by singing…

— Gregory Porter

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it…

— Thomas Beecham

And I been waiting for this time to come around But baby running after you is like chasing the clouds

— Zayn Malik

Since I was 9 years old, I knew how to make a song. But when I got older, I used it as…

— Polo G

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

— Billie Eilish

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

— James Young