Song Quotes · Page 161

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

— William Golding

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

— Chris Colfer

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

— Richard Wagner

I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.

— Tom Petty

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive.

— Mandy Patinkin

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

— Robin Williams

I've never worried about how long the song is.

— Adam Jones

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a…

— Tobias Forge

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

— Levon Helm

Whatever you make from music, you invest that right back into what you want to get into in life.

— Tay Keith

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the…

— The Eagles

When I make my music, I try and speak to me. I try to go back and hear it, so my music…

— Lil Tjay

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

— Dick Dale

I do believe that when I'm writing music, I get addicted to the music of the concept of what the outcome of…

— Nikki Sixx

As a trumpet player, I was playing Xenakis, Lindberg: very challenging, technical, atonal, and I enjoyed it.

— Andris Nelsons

Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system…

— Leopold Stokowski

I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're…

— Earl Hines

I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on…

— Yo Gotti

Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

— Chuck Israels

Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to…

— Daniel Lanois

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my…

— Laurence Shames

“WILLIAMS: The phrase, of course, is a variation of a line from the song "MacArthur Park." Any idea why the terrorists picked…

— Dave Barry

“In simplicity is such guiding truth. I turn again to the spirituals. “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine”…

— Elizabeth Alexander

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

— Gabriella Wilson

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

— Nana Mouskouri

I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

— Mija

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

— Tom Chapin

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

— John Grant

We need music to restore the human spirit

— Leonard Slatkin

But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

— William Wordsworth

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

— Billy Corgan

I'm everybody in music's guilty pleasure.

— The-Dream

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

— Christian Lacroix

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

— Jared Leto

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

— Marketa Irglova

I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.

— E-40

I try to record music that people can relate to.

— Jason Aldean

Darn...I forget my lines for my own song...candy girl!

— Aaron Carter

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.

— John Petrucci