Song Quotes · Page 409

'This Life' definitely! That's my favorite song off 'Imperial,' period.

— Denzel Curry

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

— Cecil Taylor

“ Lyrics belongs to us ina specific language, but music is universal.”

— Abrar Ahmed chowdhury

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

— Boy George

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

— Bruce Chatwin

She's addicted to song lyrics that spill her heart out for her .

— Anonymous

I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.

— Tua Tagovailoa

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

— Girl Talk

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production…

— Jay Reatard

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill…

— Annie E. Clark

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're…

— Colin Trevorrow

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I…

— David Bowie

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after…

— Franz Liszt

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

— Elijah Wood

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want…

— Linda Ronstadt

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…

— Jerry Garcia

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD…

— Norman Reedus

When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have…

— Raekwon

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting…

— Mary J. Blige

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he…

— Kenny Werner

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with…

— Jack White

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep…

— Helen Keller

I've used Fender Strats with Marshalls since forever, though since I last played London, I've switched to my YJM Seymour Duncan pickups,…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Song of myself is a great American Epic poem.

— RMKATTA

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

— Randy Bachman

I love making music, though. I love playing.

— Pharrell Williams

. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

— Shannon Hale

I suppose if a band is like a gang, it is a moment in time.

— Roddy Woomble

There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

— Jasmine V

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

— Grace Chatto

I was a piano player before I was a poet.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I like to drum for various theatrical things.

— John Densmore

It's just seems life without music would be death.

— Trevor Hall

If I could remember school work like I remember lyrics Id be a genius.

— If I Could

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

— Gabrielle Roth

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

— Boy George

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

— Anthony Minghella

The music is all we care about -- so if that's bad, then we're bad.

— Billy Corgan

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

— Lou Reed