Song Quotes · Page 686

I've done 'Back in the Saddle Again' so darn long, I could go to sleep and sing it.

— Gene Autry

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother.…

— Donovan

When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to…

— Nina Nesbitt

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

— Jose Feliciano

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you…

— Kathleen Hanna

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

— Willie Nelson

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.

— Bellamy Young

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

— Ani DiFranco

In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God.…

— Johannes Brahms

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not…

— Eric Clapton

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether…

— Penn Jillette

I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start.…

— Willy Mason

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little…

— Tom Waits

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And…

— Patti Smith

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral…

— Colm Toibin

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

— Billy Connolly

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme…

— Lupe Fiasco

“All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of…

— Maki Murakami

I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

— Elvis Presley

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians…

— Dave Grohl

Writing a song is work. You have to go deep in order to mine the material and dig it out.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in…

— Lil Xan

Listening to music while feeling liek your in a music video especially a love song

— Myself

I'm gonna cut my veins only got 20 scissors in my pocket i,i,i'm cutting looking for a vein this is legendary..;D

— Mee

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there,…

— Gavin Creel

I want to make music. Everything else is secondary and inferior to the fact that I want to make music, and whatever…

— Skrillex

As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.

— Aretha Franklin

Its funny how 1 text, 1 song, 1 mistake, 1 truth and 1 person could change your mood in 1 second.

— Shubham Joshi

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall…

— Itzhak Perlman

Gimme some of that you and me, Some of that way back when, A little bit of wild and free I wanna…

— Jason Aldean

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton…

— Clare Bowen

The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love,…

— Jeffrey Osborne

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

— Mao Zedong

Lifes not a song we all play our parts and when the music starts we open up our hearts its alright if…

— Alanna

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing…

— Bonnie McKee

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

My parents felt old-fashioned, growing up - they were quite disciplinarian. We went to church and had to learn music, but in…

— Richard Herring

A straw will always suck it out close your eyes and use your mouth and tell me about your song.

— Matt And Kim

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

— Anonymous