Song Quotes · Page 303

My mother started me on the piano when I was 3 years old.

— Kristian Nairn

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I mean, music totally comes from your soul.

— Martin Scorsese

Like a wave on the ocean I will always come right back to you.

— Hunter Hayes

Music is the question, the answer and the reason for the answer.

— Wizy Mari

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

— Alison Sudol

Music's a huge stress reliever. You can use it as an outlet.

— Patrick Chung

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

— Suzi Quatro

Music is never-ending, that's what I love about it. Even after we're dead, this music will still exist... that's the best bit.…

— Max Cavalera

I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there…

— Glen Campbell

Whenever I sing on a different scale, I sound very different. However, I have learned that I can experiment with my tone.

— Tulsi Kumar

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

— Carlos Santana

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

— Robert Breault

“Love? It is the most beautiful music of the soul. She has all the perfect notes!”

— Viorel Muha

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

— Lady Gaga

Salman Khan gave me a break, and that proved to be a boon. By the grace of God, my first song was…

— Himesh Reshammiya

It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a…

— Bhuvan Bam

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each piano is unique. Each feels different beneath your hand and yields a new geography of sound. Each room or hall accepts…

— A. Manette Ansay

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure…

— Vaughn Monroe

In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important…

— Richard Meale

Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton…

— Danny Jacob

We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a…

— Jorma Kaukonen

I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write…

— John Rzeznik

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

— Dave Grohl

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

— DJ Shadow

When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.

— Colbie Caillat

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

— Tiny Tim

It's really hard to learn songwriting from a book.

— Olivia Rodrigo

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else.

— Torae

Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

— Walter Becker

Music speaks when words can't Express your felling...

— Keren Zhims

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

— Paul McCartney

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

— Tony Williams

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

— Lester Bangs

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

— Andy Summers

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

— Alicia Keys

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

— Les Paul

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

— Mayer Hawthorne

I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.

— Ladyhawke