Song Quotes · Page 126

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

— Chris O'Donnell

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

— Paul McCartney

Music is life. It can get you through your toughest times.

— Anonymous

Our sound is different because it's who we are as a band.

— Matthew Ramsey

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

— Eddie Vedder

Music is something that should give you peace.

— Atif Aslam

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

— Chance The Rapper

I've always had a very broad taste in music.

— Paul Wardingham

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the…

— Simone Weil

To me, you had to have a least a couple of ugly guys in the band. That's why Saxon was great.

— Paul Gilbert

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any…

— Nina Simone

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an…

— Bjork

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I've always said that I would only ever release something that I would want to listen to as a fan.

— Jack Garratt

The drums are about gravity. Your hand naturally falls down on the drums as you hit them.

— Tommy Lee

The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met…

— Ashley McBryde

We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or…

— John Cage

“You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please…

— rainer maria rilke

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs…

— Mos Def

And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was…

— Kim Gordon

I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if…

— Jack White

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed…

— Nik Kershaw

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most…

— Nikki Giovanni

When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we…

— Johnny Cash

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

— Jake Shimabukuro

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

— Dionne Warwick

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

— Charlie Chaplin

To me, the best devotional song is 'Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava.'

— Devi Sri Prasad

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.

— Amy Winehouse

I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.

— Chad Gilbert

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

— King Krule

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

— Mike Will Made It

Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be

— Bob Marley

“What happens if we become adults waiting for a band that’s never coming back?”

— John Green

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

— Billy Sunday

There are only two types of music.good and bad.

— Buddy Rich

The heart is the most beautiful sound you can ever hear.

— Makai1k5

I wanted to write a song that was outright against war, in any form.

— Declan McKenna

“What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?”

— Laini Taylor

I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.

— Shankar Mahadevan