Song Quotes · Page 329

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

— Gary Cherone

“Without a song, the soul grieve in sad spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music.

— Matt Bellamy

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

— Kurt Masur

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.

— Matt Berninger

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

— Joe Bonamassa

I started listening to Sufi music when I was 21.

— Shikhar Dhawan

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

— Martin Scorsese

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I…

— Elvis Presley

Just an old love song, just the mention of your name, my heart breaks in two again. I guess some things never…

— Anonymous

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

— Five for Fighting

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.

— Cameron Crowe

Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female.

— Eminem

The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers…

— Hank Williams Jr

I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.

— Melora Hardin

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me…

— Wale

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture…

— Kim Gordon

I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist…

— Michael Buble

“ Song of a Second April APRIL this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago Is full of whispers, full…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can.…

— Chris Young

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first…

— Benny Blanco

Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of…

— Afrika Bambaataa

The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a…

— Kat Edmonson

“After a song or three or seven, James pull me closer.”

— Kiersten White

Music has a way where it moves, regardless of the genre, to progress.

— Koffee

Quick music sounds dull unless every note is articulated.

— Herbert von Karajan

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

— Pierre Boulez

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

— Dweezil Zappa

I just wanted to get out there, make music, and do it. And I love it so much.

— Tom Sandoval

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

— Josh Turner

I really didn't think about song writing.

— Adam Rich

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

— David Guetta

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

— Richard Thompson

My dad was a big influence because he did a lot of music.

— Lil Skies

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

— Victor Borge

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

— Kenny G

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

— Kiyoshi Takayama

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

— Joe Diffie

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

— Jimmy Rushing