Song Quotes · Page 537

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

— Dickey Betts

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

— John Frusciante

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me…

— Alex Lifeson

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not…

— Jain

I avoid preset sounds wherever possible, and all the sounds I use I have edited.

— Rick Wakeman

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in…

— Jake Bugg

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

— Hutch Harris

I feel like the Roses were a great group, but I never wanted to try to do it again. I knew I…

— Ian Brown

I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you…

— Kim Gordon

When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love…

— Jason Mraz

To be part of Kevin's [Drew] world, "Who Came First" is just kind of a magical symphony. If you're asking me what…

— Andy Kim

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any…

— Plato

This way, if I did the album myself, and I produced it myself with my own label, it was going to be…

— Laura Bell Bundy

Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust…

— William Prynne

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of…

— George R. R. Martin

I would love to write a song that's exciting, bright, and has a fresh melody and lyrics.

— Jeongyeon

There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

— Brendon Urie

So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.

— Jeff Gutt

How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music.…

— Johannes Brahms

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have…

— Chris Martin

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and…

— Rajneesh

“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”

— Haruki Murakami

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I…

— Moby

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

— Lauren Jauregui

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

— Bebe Rexha

So 'Heaven On My Mind' is a song I would never have thought about writing. But I really loved the concept knowing…

— Becky Hill

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

— Stone Gossard

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

— Anne Carson

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can…

— Bill Walton

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

— Kurt Elling

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

— Dave Grohl

“When God puts a song in your heart...share it with humanity through your acts of Love❤, Peace and Kindness towards others!

— Timothy Pina

I am a self-confessed rock fan and metal head, but I love good music, and 40 years on the Pet Shop Boys…

— Chris McCausland

When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in…

— Wyclef Jean

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them,…

— Henry Rollins

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution…This is the music everyone who has…

— Alexander Blok

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

— Bryan Batt

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

— Joe Walsh

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

— Robert Quine