Song Quotes · Page 622

Look, I love to sit in with small groups and play the drums. What's wrong with that?

— Bob Crane

“It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that cages the tiger.”

— Zen

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily…

— Mark Ronson

Amaal is a music composer, and I am singer, so I think we compliment each other rather than competing with each other.

— Armaan Malik

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

— Confucius

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through…

— Russell Sherman

Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs…

— Fat Joe

Everyday I fight a war against the mirror I can't take the person staring back at me. I'm a hazard to myself.…

— Pink

“That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected…

— C.D. Reiss

I did a show in Amsterdam where I was supposed to do only two songs but I ended up doing 13 because…

— Adore Delano

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet…

— Mao Zedong

I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once,…

— Malik Bendjelloul

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie. The…

— Trisha Yearwood

“One note sounds nice on a piano, but when more than one note is pressed at the same time. It sounds more…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

In jazz improv, there is no such thing as wrong notes, only notes that are better chosen and it's not about the…

— Larry Carlton

In my culture we had songs for everything, and that's lost now. There were songs for when people were born, when they…

— Einar Selvik

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

— Jakob Dylan

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

— Zubin Mehta

I think Good Charlotte has definitely always been for the underdogs and the misfits. We haven't ever really been the critics' darlings.

— Benji Madden

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs…

— John Mellencamp

Drums with a pump like some Reeboks. See me from the treetops. They worry but they need not. Heating like a teapot.

— Mac Miller

“Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time”

— John Green

A different level of musical magic is reached when the right combination of artists are collectively creating.

— Jimmie Allen

“Music is something that changes lives. It's probably the most powerful thing in the world.”

— Telle Smith

No one ever told me I had a good voice or anything; no one ever told me I could sing. They just…

— Jacob Anderson

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look…

— Joni Mitchell

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach…

— Freddie Mercury

One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

— Gavin Bryars

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

— Chuck Mangione

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

— Heather Headley

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the…

— Butch Trucks

“music is rhthym and a melody,without music we will have no joy and beats because our heart beats when there is music”

— Music is my life

I knew The Beatles before because we did our first television with them, 'Thank Your Lucky Stars.'

— Dave Clark

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

— Joe Elliott

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

— Eric Whitacre

And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for…

— Buck Owens

I was very lucky - how many people can say they did a song with John Barnes and played football with him?

— Big Narstie

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

— Conor Oberst

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“But Blake infused hope in his music. Love was the only song he knew how to play.”

— Debra Anastasia