Song Quotes · Page 727

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love…

— Ringo Starr

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.

— Martie Maguire

My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.

— Chuck Berry

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on…

— Duncan Sheik

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.;…

— Aaron Funk

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

— Tituss Burgess

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and…

— Billy Corgan

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

— Synyster Gates

I don't consider myself a businessman. It's just that the music business is like the Wild West. No one knows what's going…

— Pete Wentz

Money is important, but I gotta like the song to play it. I won't just jump on anything because someone asked me…

— Juicy J

The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in…

— Eric Lewis

“Best listened to in a windowless room, better than best in an airless room—correctly speaking, a bunker sealed forever and enwrapped in…

— William T. Vollmann

I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We…

— Johnny Cash

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of…

— Billy Gibbons

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The…

— Robert Breault

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a…

— Nat Wolff

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

— John Clellon Holmes

I think music is great at posing a question. It doesn't always have to give the answer, but it can open the…

— Kano

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

— Peter Yarrow

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules. By that definition, we are a hardcore band.

— Jacob Bannon

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what…

— Julia Leigh

When I was 14 I was really influenced by artists like Protoje and Chronixx, so I started writing lyrics.

— Koffee

“When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain…

— Soar Soaring-Words.com

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what…

— Steven Price

When your girlfriend has Taylor Swift lyrics as her status. Either you've done something very right or very wrong.

— Idunno

I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

— Max Cavalera

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

— Henry Rollins

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of…

— Dexter Gordon

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

— A Boogie wit da Hoodie

I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up…

— Matt Tong

Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player…

— Karen DeCrow

We are taught to get used to pain, and we are conditioned to live life negatively. Thank God I have my music…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

— Mikal Cronin

I'm definitely conscious of time. I already waste so much of it, just on a flight. I look back to when I…

— Lewis Hamilton

“Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs!”

— Kurt Cobain

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

— Kemp Muhl

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

— Jackie Evancho

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

— Louis St. Laurent

I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage…

— David Bowie

'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.

— Sia