Song Quotes · Page 278

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

— Rakim

I love playing music. There's no way I could do anything else.

— Chris Young

Foster the People wouldn't exist without Mophonics.

— Mark Foster

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

— Oscar Isaac

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

— Miranda Lambert

I wouldn't use a song I didn't think was my brand or image.

— Daya

Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.

— Bill Kreutzmann

Music is not only a creative outlet, but it is very relaxing and it is something you can take with you for…

— Rick Carlisle

Rappers have traditionally put products in songs, and it's been products that don't put anything back into our community.

— Charlamagne tha God

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

— Lou Barlow

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

— Anonymous

I don't think lyrics need to be deep - just write whatever comes out of you. You don't need to find intense…

— Bethany Cosentino

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shpmioO3sds :) Just discovered Stevie Hoang! Love all his songs!

— Stevie Hoang

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham…

— Gavin Rossdale

I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can…

— Hank Williams Jr

I wrote 'Song Like You' the day I recognized that someone who was really important to me was not actually very good…

— Bea Miller

It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people…

— Mic Geronimo

The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write…

— Courtney Hood

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as…

— Michael Hersch

I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled…

— Al Jarreau

People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and…

— Smokey Robinson

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you…

— Sophie Tucker

When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

— Gary Numan

Music takes me to the new dimensional world.

— Ewshy

When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense.

— Hunter Hayes

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

— Teddy Wilson

You only realise the meaning of the words to a song when your upset

— Anonymous

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

— Girl Talk

When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

— Adam Selzer

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

— Jan Vogler

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

— Rick Springfield

“nothing will ever understand our pain as well as music does”

— Iva Ursano

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

— Boosie

Punk is like not about the style, its about the music!

— Avril Lavigne

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

— Elizabeth Moon

“To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.”

— Max Lucado

Well, I take my drums everywhere I go so I can play them for relaxation.

— Bob Crane

The music is just real powerful when Mobb Deep and Nas work together.

— Prodigy