Song Quotes · Page 159

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

— Steve Forbert

We were never the trendiest band, but we've always been here.

— Steve Lukather

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

— Pete Seeger

I was an emcee for bar mitzvahs from age sixteen to twenty-one.

— James Wolk

“For your learning disability pleasure, I’ll be playing a song backwards.”

— Jarod Kintz

Singer-songwriters should be playing songs that aren't background music.

— Jack Savoretti

Music should always be just a celebration.

— K-Maro

It's always awesome when my blinker matches the beat of the song on the radio.

— Anonymous

I'm not an easy one when it comes to nostalgia - as long as I've got a new idea I'll always think…

— Jim Kerr

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

— Shahrukh Khan

I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good…

— Ben Gibbard

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get…

— Bob Geldof

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the…

— Kip Moore

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any…

— Jeff Beck

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good…

— Mabel

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more…

— Madlib

I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the…

— Mose Allison

If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s…

— George R. R. Martin

The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always…

— Albert Einstein

I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far…

— Christian Fennesz

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in…

— Brian McKnight

I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my…

— Stephen Hough

I would only listen to certain things, like a lot of teenagers do. But the Tragically Hip is a ribbon that's been…

— John K. Samson

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

— John Cage

Stay adventurous with that musical taste.

— Anthony Fantano

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

— Alanis Morissette

There are mad people out there with good beats.

— Ghostface Killah

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

— John Rzeznik

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

— Renee Fleming

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

— Javed Ali

I don't stream or buy CDs pretty much everything I buy, I do it on iTunes.

— Mark Hoppus

Music is life, it's a reflection of what I go through.

— Anonymous

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

— Link Wray

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

— Joel Madden

Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

— Adele

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

— Michael Jackson