Song Quotes · Page 363

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

— Mickey Gilley

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

— Tony Palermo

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

— Elie Wiesel

“music, the universal language of love and hope and loss and everything else.”

— Sarah Ockler

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“A touch of love has healing power. A song of love can heal deep scars.”

— Debasish Mridha

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song.

— Darius Rucker

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

— Thom Yorke

I wish I had someone who would sing romantic love songs to me. Singing them to myself in the mirror just isn't…

— Anonymous

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

— Jello Biafra

One of these days, when I get tired of it all, I'll keep six guitars and the amps I'm using, and I'll…

— Joe Bonamassa

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done…

— Dustin Lynch

I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.

— Myles Garrett

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

— Joni Mitchell

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

— Ian Williams

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the…

— Joanna Newsom

Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in…

— Don McLean

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious…

— Francis Bacon

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.…

— Jenny Lewis

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we're about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the…

— DJ Khaled

You're just these kids from a small town. You get a record deal, and everything just goes so fast. In the span…

— Benji Madden

There's a saying I always say, "A hit dog will holler." That means a hit record will take you wherever you want…

— Jim Jonsin

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all…

— Tracy Chapman

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

— Elliott Yamin

Frankly, all the songs from 'Fiza' that made news were mine.

— Anu Malik

I'm more vocal about my ideas in person and music.

— Christina Milian

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

— Jake Bugg

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

— Cody Simpson

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

— Sky Ferreira

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.

— Kelly Blatz

The whole thing about playlists is what song comes next.

— Jimmy Iovine

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

— Warren Zevon

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

— Armaan Malik

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

— Sean O'Casey

The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.

— Aaron Kilbourn

“Yes, if he is to have true music in him.”

— Plato

“You are my sunshine...'/ (the scariest song ever)/ '...my only sunshine.”

— Ryan Mecum

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

— John Waite

It doesn't matter what songs we sing. I'm a drummer. Chicks dig me.

— Larry Mullen, Jr