Song Quotes · Page 681

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

— Anonymous

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

— Lee Konitz

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

— Andrew Bird

World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.

— Jai Uttal

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part…

— Ariana Grande

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

— Desmond Child

Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.

— Neil Sedaka

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude,…

— Rajneesh

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour,…

— Dean Wareham

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone…

— Playboi Carti

“Leaning in, not against, is how you find rhythm out there. And when you master it, there is no better feeling. It's…

— Lane Hayes

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's…

— John Petrucci

It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that…

— Cee Lo Green

I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having…

— Jack Garratt

When I didn't do 'Runaround Sue' on the 'Ed Sullivan Show,' for example, I didn't listen to my inner voice. I should…

— Dion DiMucci

We can be a rock band if want to be. We can be an electronic group if we want to be. We…

— Russell Mael

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

— Tituss Burgess

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It…

— Hank Williams

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one…

— Kevin Kline

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

— Eddie Condon

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

— Mariah Carey

I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on…

— Lizz Wright

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

— Tracy Chapman

you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.

— Anonymous

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors,…

— Kevin Jonas

I don't make personality-driven music. Personality stagnates, people become tired of it. When it is purely about the music, that is what…

— Bonobo

“Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it’s a thought process.”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?”

— George Bernard Shaw

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

— Andrew Weil

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write…

— Elton John

Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.

— Robert Christgau

I had a positive remark from Johnny Rotten, would you believe? He said I was a fantastic singer. Not a lot of…

— Shakin' Stevens

I can't think of anything until I've got printed words in front of me. I never wake up in the middle of…

— Elton John

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

— Charli XCX

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where…

— Elias

I put headphones on, and let the world around me fade away as the melody rings through my head the lyrics sing…

— Anonymous