Song Quotes · Page 812

I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it…

— Gene Lees

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people.

— Jenny O

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

— Questlove

I like The Beatles a lot so Ringo is one of my favourites, along with Keith Moon and John Bonham.

— Marky Ramone

“You can sort of tell that they are doing this to show everyone that they are good enough at music to just…

— Jesse Andrews

It's volatile with GNR. Every night, it's anarchy on stage. Who knows what's gonna happen? That's rock n' roll, man.

— Duff McKagan

I think it was iTunes that first proved that people would spend money to get things they really wanted.

— Jack Conte

When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

— Adam Jones

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is…

— Shawn Colvin

I will stop nasal singing. I will change if the time comes. I am 100% sure about it. The day I feel…

— Himesh Reshammiya

Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out.…

— George Harrison

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually…

— Adam Selzer

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but…

— Frank Sinatra

“The thing about this music is that if you just stand here and listen, you’ll never appreciate it. You’re supposed to be…

— Christina Lauren

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some…

— Peter Gabriel

You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were…

— Chad Gilbert

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have…

— Delta Goodrem

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into…

— Mark Linkous

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who…

— Roddy Woomble

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my…

— G-Dragon

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.

— Erik Hassle

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to…

— Herbert Spencer

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt…

— J Mascis

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip…

— Patti LaBelle

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I…

— Maren Morris

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better…

— Matthew Shipp

“I hit the piano with my elbow sometimes because of a certain sound I want to hear, certain chords”

— Anonymous

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.

— Ramin Djawadi

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

— Dave Matthews

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if…

— Alex Turner

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything…

— Bad Bunny

Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

— Neil Finn

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music.…

— Curtis Jackson

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out…

— Jack Antonoff

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by…

— Feist

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

— Grimes