Song Quotes · Page 646

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

— Phoebe Snow

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz…

— Nick Kroll

“If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they…

— Loren Weisman

The music and the message, to me, is something that is imperative and that's what drives me know.

— Robert Davi

My kids love vinyl, I had to teach them how to put the needle on the records. Now they're worried about scratching…

— Simon Le Bon

I thought I sang - it's OK - it's so hard to sing! Singing - I had no idea. I'd get fatigued…

— Bradley Cooper

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part…

— Chris Stapleton

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

— Gavin Rossdale

I've seen people who like a certain song write on their Instagram what they think the lyrics are - which they aren't.…

— Adam Granduciel

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough…

— Alan Bishop

I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling…

— Bill Burr

“If the early English and LA punk bands shared a common sound, the New York bands just shared the same clubs. As…

— Clinton Heylin

“The interstate seems to stretch for miles in a straight line as the fields and farms give way to a more barren…

— Neil Young

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to…

— A. R. Rahman

I've never been one of those musicians to differentiate between acoustic and electronic sounds. I just see it all as sound sources…

— Bonobo

In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young…

— Irina Bokova

I don't particularly fall in love with my own compositions, but some of them are decent.

— George Benson

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

— Daveed Diggs

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment…

— Seinabo Sey

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

— Jimmy Page

Written on these walls are the colours that I can't change Leave my heart open but it stays right here in its…

— Niall Horan

“ Music is pleasant not only because of the sound of many voices, but because of the silence that is in it. ”

— Karen Russell

Music is my life, and the words inspire my personal feelings and makes who I am today today

— Rob Lloyd

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

— Max Tundra

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want…

— Giorgio Moroder

“If anybody can appreciate fine music, it's me. I mean who else can hit multiple octaves with their armpits?”

— Jarod Kintz

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

— J. J. Cale

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's…

— L.A. Reid

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who…

— Alex Lifeson

I was not a fan of the Clash or, for that matter, any other punk band that existed.

— Glyn Johns

I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

— Jodi Picoult

I listen to what people say in the songs, not just the melodies. With rappers you gotta listen to what they say.

— Anuel AA

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

— Igor Stravinsky

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

— Rumi

We have some very personal songs; songs that are a little more close to our hearts, that speak our story a little…

— Rose

I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

— Wynton Marsalis

That's something we really enjoy - incorporating things that don't ordinarily find people breaking into song.

— Ron Mael

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

— Ivo Andric