Song Quotes · Page 225

I love to get people to sing and play together.

— Jules Shear

SXSW is all about the music and the collaboration.

— Martie Maguire

“Don't die with the music still in you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

“Carrie went on to sell a million copies”

— Alan Griffin

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

— Stephen Malkmus

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

— Jay Rock

I know how to produce, and I like doing it. I know I can't sing forever.

— Al B. Sure

I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

— Gary Rossington

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.'…

— Steve Perry

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

— Anonymous

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

— Elvis Presley

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no…

— Franz Liszt

I've had 'Spanish Flea' stuck in my head since 1998, so in a subjective sense, that is the song that's playing whenever…

— Adam Rex

The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.

— Lars Ulrich

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's…

— Kevin Abstract

“The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.”

— Artur Schnabel

It's hard for me to always explain my songs, and people always expect a meaning and to know what it's about. Sometimes…

— Amy Macdonald

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere…

— Shankar Mahadevan

When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something…

— Jon Gordon

Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and…

— John 5

My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like…

— Ryo Kawasaki

I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark…

— Mick Harris

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and…

— Ani DiFranco

“No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.”

— Rachel Hollis

I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.

— Angel Olsen

Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.

— Jeff Buckley

Life is like a piano when you miss a chord things go wrong

— Jeremy Mark Limn

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

— Chuck Berry

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

— Nadia Boulanger

Make love done fight muah mmuah lets dance fuck tonight- what odd lyrics :)

— Tamika-leeigh

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

— Jon Gordon

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people

— Anonymous

We spent so much time on 'Every Kingdom,' it was a real heart record.

— Ben Howard

Stumbling old songs, but still being able to remember all the lyrics.

— Anonymous

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

— Brian Reitzell

'The Joshua Tree' was the soundtrack of my life when we were making 'Appetite.'

— Duff McKagan

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

— Joe Walsh