Song Quotes · Page 502

Life is like a Piano, white keys are happy days, black keys are sad days, and both are needed to make music

— Anonymous

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom

I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.

— Laufey

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling…

— Rihanna

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

— Nat Hentoff

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing…

— Belinda Carlisle

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

— Duncan Sheik

Every year I do a song for my homeboy Valley, who passed away from a heart attack.

— YBN Nahmir

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a…

— Robin Pecknold

My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom…

— Solange Knowles

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want…

— Dave Grohl

I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get…

— Bibi Bourelly

“A piano is like no other instrument, or any item for that matter, you will purchase. As a musical instrument it should…

— Marty C. Flinn

The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always…

— Milt Jackson

“would like to see the medley competition starting without two three pace rolls. If it starts with a solo piper followed by…

— Fergus Muirhead

There was a great push and pull of what Blink-128 should sound like all the time. Travis Barker comes from a different…

— Mark Hoppus

I no longer really have faith in the album anymore. I no longer have faith in the song,

— Sufjan Stevens

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if…

— Vance Joy

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

— Taylor Swift

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Just equating my price to one hit song is taking credit away from my lifetime's work.

— Anu Malik

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

— Lucinda Williams

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and…

— Dianne Reeves

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

— Kailash Kher

I don't sing lead - I am not the lead singer - but I do sing some stuff sometimes.

— Billy Magnussen

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

— Warren Haynes

It's important that my music makes a positive impact on my country, the reggae genre and the world.

— Koffee

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

— Maynard Ferguson

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

— Alex Van Halen

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional…

— Will Durant

Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you…

— Blake Shelton

We're just a band. We don't have to be the 'cool' thing or the 'in' thing. It's real important we get out…

— Slash

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

— Kenny Rogers

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So,…

— Billy Corgan

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

— Michael Giacchino

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

— Keith Richards

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

— Rick Warren

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of…

— Claude Debussy