Song Quotes · Page 450

The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.

— Jean Sibelius

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

— Borns

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

— Adam Granduciel

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.

— Lesley Garrett

Yuh miss a friend turn yuh lighter in da air like this dis one is da bad man anthem for life.

— Elephant Man

Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs…

— Joan Jett

The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to…

— Artie Shaw

I'm the only one that put out 200 songs, and [fans] listen to all of 'em. I don't care who you talk…

— Lil Boosie

And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the…

— MURS

When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P.…

— Tony Palermo

My uncle was an Indian singer for a long time. He was pretty popular in India. He was one of the first…

— Nav

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me…

— Rufus Wainwright

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

— Enrique Iglesias

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it…

— Anonymous

“what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young…

— julio alexi genao

You can try the lyrics off this paper before I lay em' but you wont take the sting out the words before…

— Eminem

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro…

— Steve Vai

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

— Taylor Hanson

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

— Daniel Ek

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

— Deepika Padukone

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of…

— Jeremy Fisher

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

— Anonymous

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

— Todd Rundgren

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really…

— Miley Cyrus

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no…

— Benji Madden

When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture…

— Jesse Harris

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere…

— Johnny Winter

If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want…

— Justin Chancellor

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of…

— Arlo Guthrie

We definitely like to write songs about darker things, but we like to think of it as a celebration of the evil…

— Matt Skiba

I think when it came to music, it did feel quite natural because it was something that I was so passionate about.

— Bishop Briggs

I won't get into it any more than to say that there are parts of me in all the songs that I…

— Tracy Chapman

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the…

— Cliff Martinez

I love a beautiful, soaring, singable melody. But what really draws me to a song, at the end of the day, is…

— Lari White

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

— Benmont Tench

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open…

— Ken Hill