Song Quotes · Page 113

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not the best cruise ship crooner. I'm not the best karaoke guy.

— Neil Patrick Harris

“Sometimes to get to God, first you gotta meet the Devil.”

— Tablo

Music is the framework around the silence.

— Miles Davis

I want my music to evolve to become more me.

— Grace VanderWaal

It took me 29 years to finish that song. That's a typical Jardine move.

— Al Jardine

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

— Miles Davis

To all the kids who memorize song lyrics faster then vocabulary words!

— Anonymous

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in…

— Epictetus

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

— Max Tundra

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

— Conor Oberst

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

— Joey Jordison

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

— K. D. Lang

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even…

— Leonard Cohen

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.

— Dan Smith

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.

— Duff Green

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how…

— Arthur Rubinstein

I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting…

— Quentin S. Crisp

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own…

— David Bowie

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small…

— Charlotte Caffey

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange,…

— Dhani Harrison

“You have millions of fans. Everyone around the world loves your songs. How can that not be enough?" "Because music can't tell…

— Bella Andre

I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage…

— Wayne Shorter

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week.…

— Pete Seeger

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely.

— Tito Jackson

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

— Angus Young

[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.

— Kanye West

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.

— Leonard Michaels

The songs that Kenny G has made are so lovely.

— Rev. Run

Some songs can wait for years, and then - boom! and explode like a bomb.

— Verka Serduchka

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

— Bob Dylan

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

— B. B. King

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

— Rita Coolidge

The power and reach of music should never be underestimated.

— Mohit Chauhan

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

— Yoko Ono

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday.

— Sherilyn Fenn

I want to keep making music that helps people. That makes it worth it.

— Jelly Roll

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

— Inara George

I really genuinely love 'To Be With You.' I don't get tired of playing it.

— Paul Gilbert