Song Quotes · Page 614

I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

— Olivia Newton-John

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening…

— Clint Eastwood

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue…

— Ilaiyaraaja

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

— Moby

“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”

— Kim McMillen

I hate album covers where people are just smiling so big. It's like a neon sign that says PLEASE COME BUY ME.

— Kenny Chesney

You know what, I'll climb under my covers, and curl up into a little ball, put my music on full and let…

— Amanda

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek…

— George Strait

My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being…

— Shane Bunting

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make…

— Artur Schnabel

When I am most successful as a guitar player is when I'm able to just sort of lose myself. You stop thinking…

— Tom Morello

Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How…

— Stephen Sondheim

I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so…

— Benji Hughes

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's…

— Mary Travers

My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in…

— Porter Robinson

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

— Don Henley

Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it

— Drake

This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.

— Jeremy Begbie

I'm not a rock and roller, a hitmaker. I'm highly dependent on what's coming out of these vocal cords.

— Joan Baez

When I get emotional I lean on music to help me get through hard times and I use music to express when…

— Porsha Williams

When you come home and dad's making music, sister's making music and my mum is also very musical - you can't escape…

— David Alaba

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

— Edward Abbey

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

— Kurt Elling

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

— George Santayana

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

— Homer

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

— Dean Wareham

Both the guys in Nightwish and I have experiences with previous band breakups and all emotions that come with it. It's almost…

— Floor Jansen

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling…

— Al Jarreau

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

— Eduard Hanslick

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with…

— Steve Vai

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

— Stefon Harris

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can…

— Pierre Schaeffer

“You, a human being, who possess an animal’s mind, please listen to my song. Normally”

— Kelsang Gyatso

Oasis allowed me to use lyrics from 'Wonderwall,' so I'm super gassed to re-version the track and get it to a new…

— Bugzy Malone

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

— Victoria Wood

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

— Ivor Gurney

You learn alot about people when you listen to the songs that mean something to them

— Anonymous