Song Quotes · Page 685

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech…

— Thomas Dolby

“Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home”

— Leonard Cohen

“God," he mutters. "Most girls love it when I write them a song." "Well, I'm not most girls," I snap at him”

— Emery Lord

In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really…

— Joey Kramer

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've…

— Valerie June

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

— Jean Sibelius

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I would point to a song like 'I'm Not A Loser', which I tried to evolve as best I could over the…

— Milo Aukerman

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared…

— Isaac Brock

I was finishing up at High School of Performing Arts and finally, by the end of junior year and start of senior…

— Jon Gordon

Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of…

— Vijay Iyer

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent…

— Colm Wilkinson

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come…

— Rumi

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

— Borns

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

— Adam Granduciel

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

— Lesley Garrett

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as…

— Annaleigh Ashford

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

Yuh miss a friend turn yuh lighter in da air like this dis one is da bad man anthem for life.

— Elephant Man

“what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young…

— julio alexi genao

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it…

— Anonymous

You can try the lyrics off this paper before I lay em' but you wont take the sting out the words before…

— Eminem

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro…

— Steve Vai

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

— Deepika Padukone

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

— Daniel Ek

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

— Taylor Hanson

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of…

— Jeremy Fisher

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

— Anonymous

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really…

— Miley Cyrus

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

— Todd Rundgren

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no…

— Benji Madden

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

— Iron & Wine

When it comes to our 'Jai ho,' the song became a super hit because of the composition of Rahman... He made the…

— Gulzar

I'm the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a…

— Zaytoven

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and…

— Pat Metheny

It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing.

— Steve Lacy