Song Quotes · Page 354

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

— Noel Redding

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

— George Gershwin

Music runs my life. I can't imagine going a day without it.

— Jake Peavy

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

— Frank Zappa

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

— David Crystal

It's through sheer will that I can sing.

— Harvey Fierstein

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

— Dusty Hill

I love the song 'Potential' by Alt Bloom.

— Zara McDermott

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

— Rick Astley

I wanted to write a song that can comfort you, and make you feel like I take you to 'Heaven.'

— Lee Tae-min

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

— Brent Spiner

Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

— Adam Anderson

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

— Jack Kerouac

'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke…

— Kevin Morby

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose…

— Agnes Repplier

I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make…

— Chubby Checker

The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard…

— Justin Hayward

'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink…

— Ski Mask the Slump God

“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into…

— Isaac Marion

I think a lot about the morality of songwriting, and the line in the sand I've arrived at is that sharing your…

— JP Saxe

My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,…

— Frederick Lenz

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy…

— Charles Stross

I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.…

— Jaco Pastorius

I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party…

— Brendon Urie

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

— Roger Scruton

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

— Sean Lennon

I'm just trying to make the best music that I can.

— Carly Pearce

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

— Garth Brooks

I'm kind of like a musical Bill Cunningham.

— Princess Nokia

“As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.”

— Virginia Smith

Walk towards Music and you will find life...

— Praj

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer.

— Lesley Manville

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

— Jim Coleman

I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

— Robert Smith

Music gives us happiness or sadness but it heals our soul.

— Misty Fairy

Life is like a song. It written and then heard by the people your around.

— Anonymous

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

— Namie Amuro

I've always said that music is like literature.

— Jose Carreras

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

— Slowthai

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

— Brenda Lee