Song Quotes · Page 41

You bang that piano real nice.

— Albert Collins

I write songs about what I go through.

— Taylor Swift

“about as emotional as a bagpipe.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Jazz stands for freedom.

— Dave Brubeck

I tend to jot down music.

— David Gilmour

I'm a complete and utter busker.

— Bryan Adams

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

— Jon Pardi

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

— Henry Miller

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

— Ashley Monroe

For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

— Bonobo

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

— Duncan Sheik

Sometimes the songs you think will be best don't turn out to be best.

— Billy Boyd

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

— Herbie Hancock

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

— Joe Zawinul

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

— Pat Metheny

That crazy moment when you're thinking about a song when you turn on the radio and it's playing.

— Cuts And Scars

A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

— Nikhil Banerjee

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff…

— Frank Ocean

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

— John Philip Sousa

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

— Aaron Dessner

The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.

— Mick Hucknall

So alone, just me and an instrumental. They say my music ain't normal, must be something up with my mental.

— Kid Cudi

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

— John Fogerty

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm…

— Maren Morris

You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it.…

— Loudon Wainwright III

Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping…

— Jessie James Decker

One of those Rolling Stone Greatest Guitar Player lists came out and there was no Albert King. That's impossible! There are 10…

— Derek Trucks

To me, the best music always comes when - it sounds cliche, but you just try to block out the noise and…

— Charles Kelley

I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with…

— Gemma Arterton

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on…

— Eric Hernandez

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope…

— Leonard Cohen

Songwriting's a weird game.

— Keith Richards

“Strange how potent cheap music is.”

— Noel Coward

I love to have fun when I do a song.

— Mannie Fresh

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I'm a big singer. I really love it.

— Mark Boone Junior

Music is like my security blanket.

— Yoko Ono

I only sang bhajans from 4 to 16 years.

— Neha Kakkar

Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah.

— Eric Anthony