Song Quotes · Page 185

It only takes one song & All the old memories start rushing back...!!

— Anonymous

I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.

— John 5

I know that a man is converted when he starts to sing

— Alistair Begg

Money is the anthem...of success. So before we go out, what's your address?

— Lana Del Rey

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

— Elvis Presley

Nothing is worse than going home and having not played a gig.

— Nicki Minaj

"Law suites of up to $150,000 per song against people who download music...

— Danny Worsnop

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

— Jimi Hendrix

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

— Jan Hammer

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

We want to make something that moves us when we hear it. Because after all the hype and awards and whatever, that's…

— Chris Martin

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks…

— Graham Nash

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them…

— Jerry Lee Lewis

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

— Bonnie Tyler

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

— Jonathan Davis

“The sound of the chorus came across the water and I felt leap up that old impulse, which has moved me all…

— Virginia Woolf

“Oh, this is the song about the young man who loves a young woman. Has he the right to use such a…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air,…

— Guy de Maupassant

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences -…

— Alicia Keys

It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist…

— SonReal

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building…

— Igor Stravinsky

The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing…

— Slash

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days…

— Vera Nazarian

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

— Kesha

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

— Nelly Mazloum

I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.

— Gylve Nagell

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

— Carlos Ponce

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

— Brooke Burke

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

— Jeff Tweedy

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.

— Anonymous

It's hard enough to write a song, let alone one that sticks around.

— Jani Lane

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

— James Taylor

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Be honest with who you are and what your music is about.

— B-Real

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

— Ahmet Ertegun

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

— Charles Darwin

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

— Hilda Doolittle