Song Quotes · Page 147

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

— Jon Bon Jovi

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

— Ray Charles

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

— Katherine Dunham

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

— Audrina Patridge

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

— Anonymous

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

— Big Bill Broonzy

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

— David Lee Roth

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

— Stephen Mallinder

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't…

— Wynton Marsalis

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way…

— Muddy Waters

Music is an emotion so you have to live with music all through your life to make one hit song.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.

— Jack Antonoff

Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.

— Amber Rubarth

It's weird for me talking about my own song that I wrote from my past experience in a way that sounds like…

— Lola Young

“I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you…

— Deke Sharon

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north,…

— Keith Johnstone

I'm a touring artist - I love going out and playing live, and I was sick of making records didn't translate well…

— Todd Carey

The Stones are not the kind of band that want to get in the details. That's why they have a producer and…

— Nikki Sixx

My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it does is that because the world is willing to listen to…

— Jimi Goodwin

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in…

— Michael Jackson

When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy…

— Steven Wilson

Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do…

— Jay-Z

Let every man sing his own song in life.

— John Andreas Widtsoe

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

— Dolly Parton

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

— Mark Lanegan

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

— Ricky Martin

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

— Heinrich Neuhaus

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

— Buddy Guy

You had my heart inside of your hand but you played it to the beat

— Adele

“Who knew knights wore flannel shirts and Led Zeppelin tees?”

— P.T. Michelle

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

— Anonymous

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

— David Gilmour

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

— Aurora Aksnes

I have one of those gravel-y voices with no range to it.

— Jimmy Page

A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really.

— Lenny Kravitz

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

— Quincy Jones

I don't really look for material with the idea it might make a hit record.

— Frank Sinatra Jr