Song Quotes · Page 332

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

— Noel Redding

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

— Wesley Eisold

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

— Evan Dando

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

— Stephen King

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I grew up listening to New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe because of my parents.

— Caleb McLaughlin

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

— Tre Cool

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

— Bjork

When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in and it can just…

— Albert Hammond, Jr

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano…

— Eddie Heywood

I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also…

— A. R. Rahman

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by…

— Cat Power

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

— Taylor Swift

Tal akrav @talakrav ÷ 1m Some songs can make you cry When you hear them. But Actually it isn't the songs, It's…

— Tal

It's the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed: colors changed,…

— Pete Townshend

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

— Grace Potter

“You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights.…

— Jenna Woginrich

There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the…

— Esperanza Spalding

Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or…

— Shura

I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not…

— Avicii

Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but…

— Aaron Tveit

Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the…

— Liz Rose

There is a lot of energy between Lars and James, and sometimes that energy can erupt. I know that before I was…

— Robert Trujillo

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be…

— Richard Dawkins

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

— Alan Jackson

“If you ask me, music is the language of memories.”

— Jodi Picoult

The life I love is making music with my friends.

— Willie Nelson

My Dad was just a working man. He was a good man and he loved music.

— B. J. Thomas

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

— Joe Cocker

I'm a songwriter, and I'm more than just a screamer.

— John Corabi

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

— Rebecca West

“the jukebox blares a Def Leopard tune.”

— Winter Renshaw

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

— James Gibbons

Outside of Christ, my songs have no value

— Larry Norman

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

— Christina Milian

Singing la la la la. Singing oh oh, oh oooh. Music makes me lose control.

— Inna

The only songs I would learn were songs that moved me emotionally.

— B. J. Thomas

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

— Rachel Held Evans

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

— William J. Clinton

Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

— Shirley Horn