#song

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. ↗

— John Mayer

#guitar #guitar player #i #jock #player

I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#find #hear #hit #i #i can

My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. ↗

— Martina McBride

#artists #band #conway #country #country music

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#got #group #i #knew #long

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#down #guitar #happen #just #make

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#cuz #did #had #i #just

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#appreciate #bad #could #good #good song

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#began #generation #i #kids #love

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #loved #putting #songs #together

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#aware #book #existence #human #human existence