Song Quotes · Page 609

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

— Tessanne Chin

We believe that many people who already like metal and those who like other genres will be accepting to this new type…

— Moa Kikuchi

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a…

— Andrae Crouch

I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.

— Henry Mancini

Got to keep myself calm but the truth is youre gone and Ill never get to show you these songs.

— Babloo

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something…

— Cheryl James

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't…

— Steven Adler

Love. Children are loving, they dont gossip, they dont complain, theyre just open-hearted. Theyre ready for you. They dont judge. They dont…

— Michael Jackson

I never try and force-feed any song idea or lyrical message. It's really what's on my mind and what comes out of…

— Aaron Bruno

The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really…

— Panda Bear

Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but…

— Jhene Aiko

I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through…

— Dolly Parton

He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great…

— Catherine Fisher

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing…

— Harvey Mackay

A lot of groups go out, and they make big bucks in a couple of years and they're gone. I would like…

— Randy Meisner

My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

— Lil Nas X

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give…

— Mark Twain

“Most girls want love sonnets, and you want a song about a cowboy wanted dead or alive. He hung the guitar back…

— Abbi Glines

“Kala sang lidah tak sanggup bicara, hati mendenting gitar pun mengalun, lantunkan kata tak mungkin terucap.”

— Toba Beta

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

— John Nettles

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

— Dave Grohl

“She danced so curving, lissom, like the laughter of the song. She sent resounding into spaace and down the ages long.”

— Tui Allen

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was…

— Jamie Foxx

With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.

— Snoh Aalegra

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

— Terri Clark

When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as…

— Les Dawson

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just…

— Glenn Danzig

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing…

— Sam Fender

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.

— William Fitzsimmons

I started performing in musical events after the success of 'Victory' and fans demanded the song 'Khaali Quarter' in every show.

— Arjun Janya

II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

— Kris Allen

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

— Tom Verlaine

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

— Hans von Bulow

('Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is.

— Robert Plant

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

— Wendy Starland

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

— Frank Ocean

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck