Song Quotes · Page 269

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

— Fran Drescher

If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

— Butch Trucks

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

— John Fogerty

More than anything, I realize I've been blessed to make great music.

— Ciara

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

I like jazz in all the ways that it is played.

— Bill Ward

Baybeee your a song you make me wanna roll my windows down, and cruise(:

— Anonymous

I want to try to find a way of being of service in this music space.

— Sam Ryder

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse,…

— Murdoc Niccals

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a…

— Johnny Marr

I hate it when I'm singing a song and someone joins in... I'm like Bitch , this isn't high school musical

— Every Teenage

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic…

— Joe Bonamassa

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good.…

— Scott Ian

Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I…

— Calvin Harris

Just because I write in the first person doesn't mean that all my songs are autobiographical.

— Thalia Zedek

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

— Tom Waits

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.…

— Alan Moore

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I…

— Jill Sobule

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever…

— Billy Squier

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing…

— Kelly Rowland

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which…

— Ludovico Einaudi

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to…

— Roy Ayers

“Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go.…

— Stephen King

I want somebody else to say, 'Man, that 'Back 2 Life' album got me through. There were songs that really empowered me…

— LeToya Luckett

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

— Jonny Greenwood

I want to sing songs which will touch people's hearts.

— Kim Kyu-jong

“Her laughter was an upbeat song set to a minor key.”

— Ken Scholes

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

— Shirley Manson

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”

— Amit Kalantri

Music is alive. Music is organic. Music is an expression.

— Sisqo

Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon.

— Eddie Condon

When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.

— Billy Corgan

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

— Glenn Beck

Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.

— Orlando Bloom

My favorite Taylor Swift song is between 'Blank Space' and 'Wildest Dreams.'

— Tee Grizzley

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

— Renee Fleming

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

— Mark Ronson

The way to talk about something sad is to sing a funny song about it.

— Rory O'Malley

Sometimes it hurts to play a song back..

— Raghib Clitso

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.

— Rhiannon Giddens