Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists out there; it's hard to choose one. But, I would love to work with Ledisi; she… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can… — Roy Hargrove Copy Share Image
When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days,… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
You should listen to songs and listen to what works. Listen to why a song is a hit. Check it out-not to… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
I was probably five years old or four years and I would listen to "White Christmas," and I just thought it was… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off… — Verite Copy Share Image
I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Well, this is how I see it - every tune tells a tale, nearly always a sad one. When I turn the… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
I work in bits and pieces. When I'm touring it's difficult. After touring, when I have space and time, it's a process,… — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of… — Frankie Knuckles Copy Share Image
I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I'm not a one-stop music shop with jazz improv in aisle 3 and country and western in aisle 4. I have a… — Charlie Clouser Copy Share Image
The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
'Something More' is a song that I wrote not necessarily about country radio, more so about a lot of songs that were… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
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