Song Quotes · Page 793

The music of 'Damadamm!' will be released by my company, HR Musik, and you will find a completely different Himesh in every…

— Himesh Reshammiya

The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.

— Rory Gallagher

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make…

— Future

One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a…

— Brian Reitzell

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

— El-P

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

— Chuck Eddy

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the…

— John Petrucci

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine…

— Mat McNerney

I remember when I would write a song as a kid, I would also write out on paper what the drums would…

— Lights

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've…

— John Lydon

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous…

— Dev Hynes

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument.…

— Bill Frisell

I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a…

— Tyler Joseph

We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it…

— Adam Faulkner

I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this…

— Yukimi Nagano

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open…

— Andy Warhol

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without…

— Robin Pecknold

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I…

— Paul McCartney

Good Charlotte became more than a band and more than the songs: it became something that the fans owned.

— Benji Madden

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

— Matt Besser

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

— Hope Sandoval

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

— Scott Storch

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

— Joe Satriani

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

— James Taylor

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

— Michael Jackson

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone…

— Chris Cornell

Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.

— Joseph Addison

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

— Richard Bach

I'm asking questions that most people are asking, but just putting a melody or a song to it.

— Sam Fender

Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands…

— Wayne Static

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

— Ed Droste

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw…

— Andre Rieu

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word…

— Peter Andre

Letters start with ABC, numbers start with 123, songs start with DO RE ME, love starts with you and me~ summer

— James

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension

— J. Robbins

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

— Lenny Kravitz

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

— Hollie Cavanagh

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

— Jack White

Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.

— Fat Joe

Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich.

— John Popper