Song Quotes · Page 264

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

— Oscar Wilde

My influences are Alice in Chains and Elton John.

— Christian Kane

I'd like to eventually be known as someone who emerged as a songwriter.

— Jason Bonham

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

— Charlie Byrd

I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

— Maluma

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

— John Ruskin

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

— Jay-Z

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

— Aretha Franklin

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I could write you a song, I could daily change my status. But either way you will never know how my love…

— Hussein Nishah

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music…

— Ryan Cabrera

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

— Pete Wentz

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

— Dolly Parton

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever…

— Spike Jonze

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

— Andrew Solomon

I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Being the recent accessibility of rare vinyl and cassette music via blogs, as well as the digital backlash which is driving more…

— Veronica Vasicka

“When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn’t matter.). When you play music, think of…

— Katie Waitman

'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between…

— Mark Hoppus

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone…

— Todd Boyd

If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs.…

— Alice Coltrane

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense…

— Fredrick Hatfield

Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,…

— Grace Noll Crowell

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

— Alex Scally

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

— Peggy Lee

A walk with music always helps when your down ..

— Anonymous

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

— Clark Terry

I've been playing too much guitar I, I've been listening to jazz.

— Nevershoutnever

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

— Brian Chippendale

I wrote 70-80 percent of the 'T.I.P.' lyrics.

— Tom Sandoval

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me

— Bob Geldof

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

— Al Capp

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

— Edgar Winter

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

— Ray Davies

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

— Elle Fanning

The singing in 'Dynamite,' it wasn't easy because the song is high-pitched.

— J-Hope

“You are the best parts of all the songs I love.”

— pleasefindthis

My style is simple. It is out and out melody.

— Kumar Sanu

My mum is quite young, so we actually have similar taste in music.

— Slowthai