Song Quotes · Page 403

“They know the words, but not the music.”

— K.S. Blair

When I m sad I just sing,and then I realise my voice is worse than my problems.

— Hemant Smarty

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

— Chris Robinson

Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

— Ilaiyaraaja

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

— Thelonious Monk

I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.

— Brian Molko

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.

— Robert E. Lee

The most important thing is that you like the music.

— Ken Hill

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

— Marc Almond

Typically, every 14 to 16 months, we're putting a new album out. To be honest, I wish it was slower.

— Jay DeMarcus

When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.

— George Lloyd

“Love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.”

— Frank Zappa

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

— Sam Amidon

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

— Rachel Carson

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody…

— Big Freedia

It's hard to have fun and make a fun album when you know that it's something that you need to say.

— Rakim

In my songs I make it a point that the original singers get the credit and royalty. Like with 'Jehda Nasha,' we…

— Tanishk Bagchi

The label's going great, because we're not idiots. We're not trying to sue everyone that downloads everything. We try to give the…

— Al Jourgensen

When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something…

— Amanda Shires

LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always…

— James Murphy

Being in a band is the best place I can think of to be as up-front as possible. If you let something…

— Duff McKagan

First and foremost: I'm a metal fan. I'm a musician, an artist, but I'm a complete fan and I've never grown out…

— Max Cavalera

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out…

— William Christopher Handy

I played the violin from a very young age but would love to be able to sit down in a bar at…

— Cathy Newman

All my notebooks would be filled with lyrics instead of actual notes.

— Koffee

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

— Edward Norton

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

— Bhushan Kumar

Cobain's back, Cobain's back, got these crazy white boys yellin' Cobain's back.

— Machine Gun Kelly

Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

— Julie Burchill

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

— William Shakespeare

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

— Lea Seydoux

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

— Erica Jong

I wrote my first song at the age of 9 and of course it didn't make any sense.

— Snoh Aalegra

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

— Ariel Pink

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.

— Samuel Barber

Nobody wants to die feeling that they have not sung their song.

— Marianne Williamson

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

— George Harrison

I know exactly what songwriters are going through.

— Eddie Rabbitt