Song Quotes · Page 651

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

— Sonny Rollins

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell…

— Joe Teti

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and…

— Mandy Harvey

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then…

— Julian Barratt

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

— Eric Hoffer

People, despite having the common interest in our band, might not be friends before meeting at a show. It's great bringing families…

— Liv Bruce

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

— Brian May

“Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos.…

— Hermann Hesse

I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three…

— Torae

It's hard to listen to your own record or your own songs and not pass judgment in a critical way just because…

— Alex Gaskarth

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say…

— Lou Reed

It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds.…

— Anonymous

I just felt, at the time, a little bit relieved, because I was kinda counting the days: 'Come on! Let's get these…

— DJ Shadow

“Music is obsession. Like jumping in a river and getting swept away, too fast, too hard, hoping that you find an eddy…

— Fox Benwell

We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-…

— Gloria Gaither

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot…

— John Lennon

We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good.

— Chris Thile

“Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic…

— Shannon Hale

We can judge the pulse of a song and match it with our listeners' sensibilities. I think we do this extremely well,…

— Bhushan Kumar

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen

Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like…

— Noel Gallagher

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

— Big Boi

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

— Mitch Albom

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

— Tove Lo

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I…

— Hank Williams

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but…

— Charli XCX

I was listening to the 'Song Remains The Same' version of 'Dazed And Confused' and, oh my God, that is such an…

— Jason Bonham

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

— Ingrid Michaelson

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

— Linda Ellerbee

Once I started playing the piano, after my first small competition, I realized that the piano was the right instrument for me.

— Rafal Blechacz

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

— Lara Fabian

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song,…

— Andrea Bocelli

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

— Richard Burton

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and…

— Darlene Zschech

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

— Lotte Lehmann

As an artiste you want to experiment, meet new people and do different kind of songs.

— Ankit Tiwari

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case…

— Lulu