Song Quotes · Page 690

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social…

— John Green

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

— Zedd

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's…

— Patrick Carney

I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

— Kali Uchis

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

— Alice Ripley

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes.…

— Marilyn vos Savant

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called 'My Boo,' and my music teacher got me to sing a…

— Seinabo Sey

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of…

— Frank Sinatra

“The men stood back, chanting a song of one who would not be forgotten, of loved ones lost and returned to the…

— Deanna Raybourn

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about…

— Eldar Djangirov

The Fox God created Babymetal by coming to us in a dream and telling the three of us to form the band.…

— Suzuka Nakamoto

The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think…

— Don Helms

Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit…

— Sidney Lanier

The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men…

— Rudy Vallee

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

“And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go…

— Charles Dickens

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

— Aulis Sallinen

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

— Nat Wolff

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't…

— Marc Almond

If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.

— Rick Nielsen

When you play with another piano player, it's just second nature to play the parts that need to be played.

— Leon Russell

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that…

— Ben Lee

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

— Kim Harrison

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with…

— George Szell

Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.

— Joey Ramone

“the man with one hand turned on an enormous radio and tuned it to a mastermix station where the songs are not…

— David Sedaris

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows…

— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

— Buddy Rich

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album…

— Taylor Swift

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

— Anonymous

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing…

— Andy Biersack

A lot of my music is more about the possibilities of acknowledging something, rather than giving you an answer.

— Visionist

I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger…

— John Entwistle

Aimee and I are seen as very dour songwriters, and we're both kind of uncomfortable just talking.

— Michael Penn

The songs that you start to write that you are a little scared of can be the ones that you have to…

— Mat Kearney

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a…

— Dee Dee Ramone

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect…

— Adrian Smith