Song Quotes · Page 552

I wanted to be a drummer but my brother Iggor was better at it, so I took up guitar instead.

— Max Cavalera

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety…

— Plato

I started to feel songwriting was pulling different pieces of my heart out - the more I started writing, the more there…

— Calum Scott

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

— Les Baxter

“You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully…

— Jacob Hoye

I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

— Slash

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel…

— Chris Stapleton

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency…

— Mark Helprin

I never write a song before I get the track because I just feel that I have to make a marriage with…

— Freddie Gibbs

In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of…

— Benji Madden

I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel…

— Yenz Leonhardt

I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this…

— Yukimi Nagano

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open…

— Andy Warhol

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.…

— Joe Strummer

“Music can be a powerful adjunct to the healing process. And music is one of the safest medicines you'll ever find. You…

— Allan Hamilton

I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through…

— John C. Reilly

My mom is about 60 years old and she loves our music because she can bounce around to it.

— Wayne Static

There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and…

— Allan Holdsworth

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor…

— Victor Borge

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

— Ashthon Jones

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any…

— Judith Viorst

You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.

— Jancee Dunn

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther…

— Ice Cube

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

— Gavin Bryars

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would…

— Taylor Swift

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

— Susan Boyle

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

— Richard Marx

My dad had a great record collection, which included some music from Mexico, and so I always loved it.

— Michael Giacchino

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

— Angus Young

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I…

— Gladys Knight

It does feel really good to sing songs about somebody that I really respect, admire, love, care about and am so passionately…

— Anthony Green

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that…

— Estelle

Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that…

— Arca

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was…

— Rakim

You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back…

— Buddy Rich

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

— Lewis H. Lapham

I'd tell anyone starting in music, 'don't think that you and your songs alone will get you anywhere.'

— Jack Savoretti

“There are times in life to play it safe. I'm sure you can think of several. Music is not one of them.”

— Deke Sharon

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

— Aldis Hodge