Song Quotes · Page 433

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

— John Fogerty

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

— Richard Herring

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music…

— George Carlin

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

— Robbie Robertson

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze,…

— Stephan Jenkins

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly…

— Mary Gauthier

I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.

— Guy Sebastian

Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“All of the love and the longing a body can contain was spun into not more than two and a half minutes…

— Ann Patchett

There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This…

— Jimmy Page

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig…

— Rickie Lee Jones

Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about…

— Legs McNeil

Over the years, Cajun music has always calmed me down, or if I'm feeling real sick or feeling real unsettled, I can…

— Hank Williams III

I think there is just this inherent understanding between us at a subconscious level when we play. It's like we anticipate each…

— Edward Kowalczyk

Music is the timeline of my life. It reminds me of where I have been, who I was with, what I was…

— Rock Cowles

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you…

— Tove Jansson

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of…

— Charles King

“After the song finished, I said something. "I feel infinite." And Sam and Patrick looked at me like I said the gratest…

— Stephen Chbosky

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

— Gina Schock

We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.

— Barry Trotz

Whoever likes my music, I'm gonna reciprocate that same love back to them. I'm not trying to alienate anybody.

— JPEGMAFIA

If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a…

— Jrue Holiday

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

— Fergie

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere,…

— Jay-Z

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant…

— Mike McCready

Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what's the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance…

— Dimple Kapadia

I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove…

— Jens Lekman

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“With the mind, it’s the eternal argument. With the heart, it’s the eternal song.”

— Elizabeth Fox Brewer

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were…

— Martin Popoff

“Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”

— Frank Capra

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

— John Lurie

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in…

— Maya Rudolph

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

I never want people to say, 'Oh, another Eddie Rabbitt record.' Each has to have a little different approach than the others.

— Eddie Rabbitt

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with…

— Anita Baker

We wrote every single song, and they're all true stories. Some people don't believe us, but they are.

— Maddie Marlow

We got our grounding by playing live. You had to fall flat on your face, pay your dues and grow.

— Dave Clark

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before,…

— Woodrow Wilson