Song Quotes · Page 408

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

Music does not excite until it is performed.

— Benjamin Britten

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

— John Mayer

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

— Ray Davies

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

— Warwick Thornton

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

— Janina Gavankar

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

— Ry Cooder

I always tell people that it's so much harder to make a happy song than a sad one.

— Kristian Bush

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

— Burning Spear

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many…

— Tim Cahill

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best…

— Frank Dukes

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out…

— Roisin Murphy

I've always been in love with things that are throwbacks, whether it's music or stories.

— Lainey Wilson

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

— Lucinda Williams

I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as…

— Charlie Watts

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice…

— Waylon Jennings

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand…

— James Taylor

My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I…

— Chris Tomlin

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never…

— Gary Cherone

I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like…

— Faith Evans

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music,…

— Henry Rollins

I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I…

— Tom Rush

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

— Dan Fogelberg

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Unstoppable' is a song that I wrote about my mom.

— Ananya Birla

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

— Glenn Tipton

To me, there's way more to being a good drummer than precision and technique.

— Mike Portnoy

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

— Gary Kemp

“Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.”

— T.L. Rese

I was a big fan of hardcore music growing up, black metal.

— Aleister Black

Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before.

— Billy Joel

I know I'm in love when that stupid love song began to make sense.

— Khat Leen

I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.

— Frida Kahlo

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

— Morgan Wallen

For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.

— Max Lucado

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

— G-Dragon