Song Quotes · Page 129

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

— Buddy Rich

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

— John Coltrane

The music I listen to well tell u more about me then I could tell u.

— Tabby Marie

[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know.

— Miles Davis

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

— Flea

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

— Bob Seger

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

— Luke Bryan

We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.

— Max Cavalera

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular…

— Iannis Xenakis

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become…

— Chely Wright

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of…

— Kinky Friedman

We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

— Courtney Love

I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do…

— Jill Sobule

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Beethoven wrote Für Elise around 1810, though Elise was actually supposed to be Therese, a woman he was to marry in the…

— Mary Kubica

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get…

— Angus Young

Always in movies... drummers are portrayed as the dumb character... I don't know why. Most of the drummers I know are the…

— G Flip

“Sing little box Don't let sleep overtake you The world's awake within you In your four-sided emptiness We turn distance into nearness…

— Vasko Popa

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I…

— Sharon Van Etten

“For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul…

— Ben Galley

Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain…

— Ozzy Osbourne

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only…

— Bill Conti

There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"…

— Aaron Watson

I think on every album, I keep experimenting to go where I haven't been before.

— Bonobo

I am the original voice of all the songs.

— Liz Mitchell

The track 'Fire' is quite different from the other songs in 'Kites.'

— Rajesh Roshan

The song needs to cater to the requirement of the situation.

— Tanishk Bagchi

One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right

— Bob Marley

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

— William Wordsworth

“Without nukes there would have been no Beatles,”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

— Dhani Harrison

I want to be known for my music, and that takes time.

— Mabel

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

— Alex Kapranos

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,

— Marcel Marceau

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

— Lucinda Williams

Every love song makes me cry because every love song reminds me of you.

— Anonymous

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

— George Benson

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

— Paolo Nutini

I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.

— Bobby Bare