Quotes about Music

When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.

I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast him. If all my music team were happy, I was happy.

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.

I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever.

I'm so grateful that God has allowed His heart for people to translate through music, to impact the lives of so many, just like a loving Father would.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

He who sings prays twice.