Song Quotes · Page 245

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

— Bruce Springsteen

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin.

— Myles Kennedy

Music will always be my greatest passion.

— Vanessa Mae

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

— Sondre Lerche

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on.

— Gordon Waller

I usually start with a lyric or a melody and then build a song around that.

— Grace Potter

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

— Bad Bunny

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you…

— Lester Bowie

Lyrically, I feel like there are things I always go back to, having to do with relationships.

— Alejandra Deheza

Music has been a fantastic guidance for me. I'll be eternally thankful for this guidance.

— Pinchas Zukerman

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in…

— Valerie June

The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different…

— Tommy Lee

What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.

— Charles Bukowski

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

— Joel Madden

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very…

— Rob Zombie

I think, any of your audition songs should really be a song that you are so confident with and can pull out…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships…

— Nadine Coyle

So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to…

— Vienna Teng

“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Linguistic and musical sound systems illustrate a common theme in the study of music-language relations. On the surface, the two domains are…

— Anonymous

I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty…

— BØRNS

My love is like an ocean It goes down so deep My love is like a rose Whose beauty you want to…

— Anonymous

As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I…

— Don McLean

My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

— Dickey Betts

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach.

— Erik Rutan

I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.

— Christopher Owens

What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me.

— Luther Allison

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

— Bessie Smith

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

— Anonymous

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

— Lily Allen

“I could not walk except with you, ...I could not sing except when you sing.”

— pablo neruda

All of our songs, no matter what record they're on, mean a lot to us.

— Chad Gilbert

I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song.

— Shreya Ghoshal

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

— Ken Hill

Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

— Jimmy Durante

The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music.

— Mardy Grothe

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

— Brian Bonsall

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis