Song Quotes · Page 46

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified,

— Steven Tyler

Records don't tend to drive me on.

— Paul Mullin

Rosa Parks is rock and roll.

— Yungblud

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

— Dan Auerbach

There are no rules to writing a song.

— Randy Castillo

This shall hence become my music.

— Charles XII of Sweden

I sing songs I like, and songs I feel.

— Skip Marley

I always listen to music while I draw.

— Joseph Altuzarra

Every album we've done is tightly linked with our lives.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

— Zach Condon

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

— Estelle

The world doesn't need any more pretty good songs.

— Mary Gauthier

I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.

— Riff Raff

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

— Howard Snell

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

— Richard F. Thomas

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

— Passenger

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

— The-Dream

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

— Wes Montgomery

As far as actual playing, Clapton - by far - is my biggest influence, and you can tuck Jeff Beck underneath that.

— Joe Bonamassa

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I…

— Fiona Apple

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

— Rumi

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

— Miles Davis

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it…

— Piggy D

Listen closely to the songs I play, because the lyrics speak the words I fail to say.

— Anonymous

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming…

— Tyga

Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden…

— Alan Menken

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I…

— Andy Kindler

I've been trying my whole life to get to this point, and it's finally here. It's an amazing record, and it happens…

— Jeff Gutt

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music,…

— Wynonna Judd

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have…

— Brad Paisley

It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add…

— Ludwig Goransson

If you make great music, you can become a mold breaker or a trailblazer. It's a little scary to do that because…

— Anthony Evans

Everything I do is Mingus.

— Charles Mingus

Disharmony is natural in any band.

— Joan Jett

I wish I had a great singing voice.

— Mandy Ingber

We are lied to by our love songs.

— Helen Fisher

Music makes the pain fade.

— Anonymous

I came to music very young.

— Sue Perkins

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

— Bob Geldof

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

— Karen O