Song Quotes · Page 187

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

— Frederic Chopin

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

— Emmylou Harris

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

— Vikram Seth

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

— Erich Bergen

Band shuts down at two but we're hangin' out till three.

— Trace Adkins

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

— Montserrat Caballe

I wouldn't have a No 1 record or song if I wasn't a hard-working person.

— Kesha

Whenever I'm obsessed about anything, that becomes the subject of a song.

— Redfoo

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take…

— Eric Clapton

Some songs we heard again and again not because we don't understand it but because we feel it very much.

— Nishan Panwar

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

— Rickey Medlocke

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a…

— Peter Shaffer

Surely there's a deeper pursuit to music than getting bros to pump their fists in the air.

— Kevin Parker

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things…

— Jessye Norman

You can tell when a song has come from the heart and is genuine, and it moves you more when you can…

— Arlo Parks

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

— Cannonball Adderley

The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I…

— John Popper

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can…

— Torquil Campbell

When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't…

— Cassadee Pope

I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi…

— Phil Anselmo

“The entire incident might have been avoided had Willis more carefully selected the tracks in his blaring music playlist. “Sometimes it’s Diana…

— Brian Abrams

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that…

— John Lennon

I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like…

— Sia

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the…

— Ezra Pound

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

— Andris Nelsons

“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”

— Mark Peter Hughes

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

— Eddie Floyd

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

— Robert Englund

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

— Valerie June

Music is always gonna change; it's just a matter of keeping up with the times.

— Cam'ron

I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.

— Matthew Shipp

I can't control when somebody likes my song or they don't.

— The-Dream

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

— Bob Livingston

Economic background should not be a reason for not learning music!

— Shankar Mahadevan

“The powerful can make the truth dance to their song.”

— J.Y. Yang

The Stones were a big influence on me and the Beatles, obviously.

— Brad Paisley

Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.

— Charlie Day

I try to project not only a song but a personality.

— Peggy Lee

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Knowing that people make my songs their own is what keeps me going.

— Alanis Morissette