2423 Song Quotes for You to Enjoy

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all. John Fogerty

Good Song Ability Mandolin Full Player Extent

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument. John Frusciante

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I like work, I like song writing, and I like the history of Atlantic Records. They've sat in the studio with so many artists - like Ray Charles, for example - and created something amazing. As a label, they seem to be great at growing bands rather than telling you how to do it. John Gourley

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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again. John Grant

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If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news. John Hawkes

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I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. John Lee Hooker

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Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' John Legend

Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful. John Lewis

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. John Lydon

Love Music Good Song Easy Write Pop Pop Music Pop Song

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. John Mayer

Song Kind Idea Just Want Present

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. John Mellencamp

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'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor. John Mellencamp

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When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. John Oates

Time Song Remember First First Time Came Heaviest Radio Things

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs. John Oates

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I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song. John Prine

Song Dog Rather Write Hot Hot Dog Than Get Doughnut

'Sam Stone' is a song about futility. John Prine

Song Futility About Sam Stone

I always feel like every song is the last song. John Prine

Song Every Feel Like Always Last

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