Song Quotes · Page 294

Food and music have always been the pillars of my life.

— Andi Oliver

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

— Andre Braugher

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

— Beth Ditto

I like collaborating, because if I didn't, I'd probably never finish a song.

— Alan Jackson

I lived a lot of those songs, I lived 'Time to Creep,' I lived 'Love You Bad.'

— Mark Morrison

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

— Ray Charles

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

— David Almond

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

— Sheryl Crow

I always write music if I'm feeling a bit rubbish and I don't know how to get over or through something.

— Tom Walker

Playing the piano is incredibly personal... But when it's your own piece, it's doubly so.

— Stephen Hough

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that…

— Slash

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

— Hugh Laurie

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that…

— John Denver

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

— Keith Richards

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked…

— Steven Adler

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

— Keith Moon

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you…

— Benny Blanco

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as…

— Shawn Mendes

When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...…

— Mick Hucknall

I was lucky to start playing guitar in the Eighties when so many great players were around to inspire me, like Yngwie…

— Chuck Schuldiner

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform…

— Jose Gonzalez

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what…

— Ralph Stanley

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a…

— Zacky Vengeance

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my…

— Tyler Hilton

“Rock Music? No way, dude. Rock rules, and always will.”

— Meg Cabot

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

— Steven Pressfield

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

— Mickey Hart

Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.

— Krystian Zimerman

Excuse me, could you shut the f*ck up? This is my favorite part of the song.

— Kiana J Wilson

The Eightfold Path is ordering the island of the tonal completely.

— Frederick Lenz

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

— Ryan Hurd

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

— Zara Larsson

No nation has a single history, no people a single song.

— Jill Lepore

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

— Boz Scaggs

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

— Anonymous

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

— Roger Sessions

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.

— Slash