Song Quotes · Page 118

There would be no Static-X if I didn't write all the songs.

— Wayne Static

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

— John Dryden

I would post about 'Twilight' even if I didn't have a song called 'Vampire.'

— Olivia Rodrigo

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things.

— Craig Finn

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

— Miriam Makeba

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll.

— Brendan Fraser

We wouldn't be where we are without people loving our music.

— Cole Swindell

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your…

— Andres Segovia

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation.…

— Glen Hansard

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

— Sara Teasdale

When I hear my songs I be feeling like Braun. No Corey Matthews, I be feeling like Sean.

— Dom Kennedy

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

— Steven Tyler

I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do…

— Phil Collins

It makes me extremely proud to make punk rock the biggest music in the world right now.

— Mike Dirnt

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

— Kang Dae Sung

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my…

— Brooke Fraser

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So…

— Greg Graffin

If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about…

— Will Sheff

I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about.…

— Sixto Rodriguez

I consider myself primarily a songwriter first, so the goal is to write songs that might be personal, but that people can…

— Carly Pearce

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before…

— Mary J. Blige

“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot…

— Claire Legrand

Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music…

— Marvin Hamlisch

To be honest, I just find the guitar quite hard.

— Ellie Rowsell

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

— Tom Waits

“Even free spirits had to the face the music sometime.”

— Kathleen Long

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

— Katie White

I will not consider any offer for an item song. I will turn it down.

— Daisy Shah

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

— Ritchie Blackmore

There is no such thing as an unmusical person.

— Hans Werner Henze

I started playing piano from a very young age, and I just loved it.

— Griff

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

— Borns

“Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.”

— Hrishikesh Agnihotri

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

— George Russell

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

— Tommy Chong

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

— Alanis Morissette

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

— Sean Lennon