Song Quotes · Page 624

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

— Mark Salling

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of…

— Lenny Kravitz

As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that…

— Alexandra Patsavas

I've always wanted to do a tune with The Prodigy because I'm such a massive fan.

— Tulisa

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light…

— Johnny Ramone

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're…

— Chris Cornell

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for…

— Dwight Yoakam

When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an…

— Lady Gaga

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic…

— Avril Lavigne

"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note…

— Scott Yanow

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself,…

— Robert Schumann

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a…

— RZA

I listen to a lot of mid-2000s stuff, cause that's what I grew up in. But my favorite 'College Dropout' song is…

— Tyrese Haliburton

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked…

— Roy Ayers

I didn't have to sell my soul for money. I didn't have to go through trap music; I could just help Ye…

— Cyhi the Prynce

'Feel Special' is the song that we all cherish, and we thought the song's lyrics are words that everyone needed to hear.

— Momo Hirai

Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.

— Nick Lachey

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

— Daniel Barenboim

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you…

— Lisa Stansfield

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

— John Gourley

'Turtle' is one of our favorite ballad songs that we've written. It is very quiet but also so bright.

— Momo Hirai

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

— Frank Zappa

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.

— Banks

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to…

— Dave Grohl

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up…

— Grace Potter

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and…

— Edge

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I feel very good when songs are recreated or different singers sing the same song.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take…

— M. Ward

“MUSIC expressed what cannot be said and on which it is IMPOSSEBLE TO BE SILENT.”

— Victor Hugo

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was…

— John Densmore

I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul.

— Mohit Chauhan

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them…

— John James Audubon

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

— Robert Morris

I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know.

— Philip Bailey

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

— Joe Perry

“Tell me why you love music, Madeleine; how it affects you.”…“I can hide within it, surrounded in beauty, rather than a witness…

— M.S. Willis

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

— Geddy Lee