Song Quotes · Page 277

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

— Joey Jordison

I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

— Maurice Jarre

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

— Fiona Apple

If my music can be part of the soundtrack to your day, that's such an honour.

— Snoh Aalegra

They should've built a city on rock and roll.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I rarely finish songs on the road but a lot of them get started there.

— Declan McKenna

Some people have lives; some people have music.

— John Green

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

— Charlie Haden

The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.

— Casey Kasem

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

— Paul Gilbert

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

— MC Lars

I used to have a Fender Hot Rod and I actually really like that, purely because I think the clean sound and…

— Ellie Rowsell

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He…

— Karl Barth

Whenever you find the key to happiness. Life has a piano waiting on you to play.

— Clive Jaars

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

— Ravi Shankar

In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are friends & family to…

— Anonymous

Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that…

— Christian Burns

“[D]id you ever notice how friendships are a lot like pop songs? They are for girls, anyway. First there's the newness of…

— Brando Skyhorse

In hindsight I might have chosen a different path and everything but I still make music, I have a core following that…

— Chesney Hawkes

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a…

— Amity Shlaes

I like being able to own things, to not have to depend on music to support myself. Music hadn't supported me since…

— Vinnie Paul

I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because…

— Jain

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing…

— Jain

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me…

— Andrae Crouch

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

— Rza

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

— George Thorogood

I really and truly believe that music represents humanity’s soul.

— Yanni

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

— Toni Braxton

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

— Miles Davis

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

— Rudolf Carnap

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

— Glen Campbell

“they will surely sing of us, and it’s always summer in the songs.”

— Anonymous

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke.

— Michael Bland

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

— Louis Armstrong

Music - some people just don't know that part of me.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

— Waris Ahluwalia

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

— Igor Stravinsky

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach

— Mauricio Kagel

Money, ego and drugs - that's what caused the demise of our band.

— Gina Schock

I like music of almost any kind - including this.

— Mitt Romney