Song Quotes · Page 541

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

— Leonard Cohen

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow.…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Life is like a piano, there are black and white and you have to play both to have a beautiful melody!

— Anonymous

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

— Joe Louis Walker

Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

— Max Lucado

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was…

— Rostam Batmanglij

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

— Mike McCready

We did the Labor Day jazz festival and opened for Dave Brubeck. It was like a fairy tale there.

— Melissa Morgan

As far as being a drummer, to me it's a positive that he's my father. To be mentioned alongside him... I mean,…

— Jason Bonham

Stick choice should be every drummers first decision. Sticks are the liaison between you and your creative expression on the drums. Getting…

— Rikki Rockett

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be…

— Theodor Adorno

“Do you actually state what a pain in the ass I am in these songs?” “Not those words exactly. No.” He chuckled,…

— Kylie Scott

I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the…

— Steve Vai

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week,…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Like a lot of the newer bands, like the more poppy kinda bands, although they make really good records and they produce…

— Gary Moore

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance,…

— Randy Jackson

I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

— B.o.B

My heart gets tight and it's almost like my soul gets congested if I'm not making music.

— Alison Sudol

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that…

— Rosemary Clooney

I think my songs serve a purpose in a very therapeutic way to do with relationships, very different to do with my…

— Lapsley

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the…

— Eugene Ormandy

I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

— David Archuleta

Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!

— Julian Casablancas

Im a story teller so I just write about past experiences Ive been through. Or what Im dealing with right now. My…

— Diggy Simmons

In fact, it was my singing that helped me place so high in the Miss America contest. If it just depended on…

— Anita Bryant

“I always thought death and death alone could ever push me across that line when it came to this band. (I was…

— Duff McKagan

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I…

— Joshua Roman

There is a constant battle between Cogsy and I as who's the biggest psycho in the band

— Bernard Fanning

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

— Joe Nichols

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score…

— Gopi Sundar

“I want to be my own wedding singer at my own wedding. But first I’ll have to audition.”

— Jarod Kintz

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and…

— Gore Vidal

Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't…

— Chris Isaak

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

— Robin Trower

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's…

— Jon Foreman

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

— Steve Young

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

— Greg Saunier

It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

— Jan Garbarek