Song Quotes · Page 233

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

— Andre Braugher

Food and music have always been the pillars of my life.

— Andi Oliver

I started writing music around 20 years old.

— J.I.D

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

— Sheryl Crow

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

— David Almond

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

— Ray Charles

I lived a lot of those songs, I lived 'Time to Creep,' I lived 'Love You Bad.'

— Mark Morrison

“Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will.”

— Meg Cabot

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud...…

— Arlo Guthrie

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

— Anton Webern

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

— Sonny Rollins

Sometimes it feels like the lyrics to a song you're listening to, were written just for you

— Melchor Lim

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can…

— Kygo

You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.

— Roswell Rudd

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where…

— Colin Greenwood

The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that

— Jessica Hagedorn

All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that 'God Only Knows' was…

— Brian Wilson

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to…

— Kreesha Turner

“The Replacements made me feel a little less scared, because they made good imaginary friends. They looked like a band that would…

— Rob Sheffield

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all…

— Ringo Starr

When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get…

— Adele

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it…

— Bono

I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening…

— Al Jarreau

Excuse me, could you shut the f*ck up? This is my favorite part of the song.

— Kiana J Wilson

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

— Steven Pressfield

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

— Mickey Hart

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

— Daniel Radcliffe

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

— Zara Larsson

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

— Jill Lepore

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

— Ryan Hurd

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

— Frederick Lenz

Punk is dead to anyone who didn't get it in the first place

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

— Neil Sedaka

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

— Joey Jordison

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

— Gordon Lightfoot