Woody Guthrie Quotes

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

Music is the only thing that I trust.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

There's a song", I say. "There's always a song", he says.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I really believe in melody.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

The River,' to me, meant 43 songs.

All that really moves me is music.

Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.

Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.