Song Quotes · Page 697

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

— John Lee Hooker

Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

— Scarface

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the…

— Elton John

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

— Bill Watterson

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to…

— Amy Grant

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

— Joe Bonamassa

Music gets you through hard times, helps heal your heart, is always there on your good days and never leaves you alone…

— Anonymous

It's not always the song itself that makes you emotional, but the person or event that comes to mind when you hear…

— Nishan Panwar

I really don't want to be associated with the low-brow Black Metal genre. If you want to know what I mean when…

— Varg Vikernes

Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some…

— Brian Fallon

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business…

— Don McLean

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they…

— Kurt Elling

“At the ukulele workshop that summer. He lectured on the four-note chord in the context of timelessness, and described himself then as…

— Thomas Pynchon

The Sex Pistols came through Atlanta, and I got to go see them. That was historic. It blew me away; it was…

— Cindy Wilson

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into…

— Sara Evans

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and…

— Jonny Lang

I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan! 'Number of the Beast?' I'm like, Well, I can't wear that T-shirt so much anymore.

— Jonathan Roumie

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

— Conor Oberst

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their…

— Bobby McFerrin

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

— DJ Shadow

There's so many songs about heartbreak that exist this in the world, because music is somehow the perfect medium to express something…

— Bjork

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the…

— Gustav Ejstes

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal…

— Thomston

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some…

— Fred Hammond

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

— Pat Metheny

I reckon people's attitude to us is a challenge that motivates you to show them what this band can do.

— Luke Hemmings

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

— Alessia Cara

I think I am very disturbing on the set because I am singing all the time. I won't say I am a…

— Mithila Palkar

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

— Woody Allen

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

— Richard Lloyd

Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

— Chuck D

The days of the NME being like, 'This is your new favorite band, and here's one song' - that's over.

— Matty Healy

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

— Emily Haines

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

— Toots Thielemans

Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.

— Gerry Mulligan

“Is that why you play the music so loud? A beat to drown out the thoughts, sound so high you cannot think,…

— Courtney Peppernell

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere…

— Paul McCartney

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

— Rory Gallagher

I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would…

— Fergie