Song Quotes · Page 618

Most of the time in Nashville, you're so replaceable. Anybody can get another nice-looking guy to sing a country song.

— Walker Hayes

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything:…

— J Mascis

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

— Bob Dylan

We sold over 80 million records throughout the world, and there are going to be people who want a new product, or…

— Richard Carpenter

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all…

— Alexis Korner

“Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!”

— Kamand Kojouri

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

— Freddie Gibbs

With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense…

— Clifton Anderson

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though…

— Jennifer Egan

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.…

— Stephen Sondheim

I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't…

— Paul Smoker

I’ve always tried to find God in lots of different things, whether that’s been drugs, women, etc, etc… But all those things…

— Matthew Healy

When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the…

— Chris Cornell

I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my…

— Jason Mraz

Here, before the flames begin, may passion burn within. Our anthem as we wait, for love to save the day. There is…

— Anonymous

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could…

— Leonard Cohen

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

— Kurt Elling

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

— Shania Twain

“Songs about death and lost love and rambling down the line because sometimes down the line was the only place left.”

— William Gay

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has…

— Peter Warlock

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs,…

— Ronnie Hawkins

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

— Philip Doddridge

Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

— Bob Hope

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

— Avril Lavigne

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham…

— Gavin Rossdale

I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can…

— Hank Williams Jr

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

— Anonymous

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense…

— Bethany Cosentino

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shpmioO3sds :) Just discovered Stevie Hoang! Love all his songs!

— Stevie Hoang

In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are friends & family to…

— Anonymous

Music is not only a creative outlet, but it is very relaxing and it is something you can take with you for…

— Rick Carlisle

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

— Ravi Shankar

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.

— Charlamagne tha God

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

— Lou Barlow

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

— MC Lars

The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.

— Casey Kasem

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

— Paul Gilbert

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He…

— Karl Barth

Whenever you find the key to happiness. Life has a piano waiting on you to play.

— Clive Jaars