Song Quotes · Page 802

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

— Phillip Phillips

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took…

— Paul Simonon

It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for…

— Gustavo Dudamel

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and…

— Edge

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up…

— Grace Potter

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to…

— Dave Grohl

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

— Daniel Barenboim

Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.

— Nick Lachey

The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today…

— Mahan Esfahani

I don't think, like, 'I've got to sell so many records here, or so many records there.' That's the record label's job.…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested,…

— Branford Marsalis

“Or is it that alongside this track runs other lines - repetitions, variations, contradictions - echoes of all those lives we failed…

— Alan Bilton

I think the Control has really opened up the music to a whole new audience. I've met kids recently, kids of people…

— Orian Williams

One of the coolest moments for me is still when Kenny G came back to a venue to find me and personally…

— Antoniette Costa

These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless…

— Andrew Hill

I had the most frustrating thing happen when I was trying to find a label. I sent my album to this indie…

— Margo Price

One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you…

— Lisa Stansfield

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

— Frank Zappa

'Turtle' is one of our favorite ballad songs that we've written. It is very quiet but also so bright.

— Momo Hirai

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

— John Gourley

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.

— Banks

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're…

— Chris Cornell

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

— Paul Westerberg

'Feel Special' is the song that we all cherish, and we thought the song's lyrics are words that everyone needed to hear.

— Momo Hirai

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for…

— Dwight Yoakam

Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about…

— Steven Van Zandt

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

— Whitney Houston

Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed.

— Freya Ridings

On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself,…

— Lil B

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

— Mary Pipher

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want…

— Yannis Philippakis

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question.

— Shawn Crahan

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so…

— Chely Wright

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

— Joe Perry

I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know.

— Philip Bailey

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

— Geddy Lee

“Tell me why you love music, Madeleine; how it affects you.”…“I can hide within it, surrounded in beauty, rather than a witness…

— M.S. Willis

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate…

— Boris Vian