What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Trumpets [Hook:] Every time that you get undressed I hear symphonies in my head I wrote this song just looking at you… — Corey Sad Broken Heart Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
Because I feel like I can do so many different things, and people like my music for different reasons, I don't feel… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“I’m here if you need an ear. You can count on me.” With that, she left the loft. Loretta wrapped her arms… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time,… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
In 1990 if you heard a song on the radio and you really wanted to hear it again you'd have to buy… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Life is like a piano, The white keys represent happiness. And the black ones shows sadness. But as you got through life's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever do a record that's just the same song over and over again because I'd like to think… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I do it because it's me. At the end of the day, I only know how to be me.… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of… — Ari Hest Copy Share Image
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
'Carbs' is the first song I wrote, and 'I Wanna Boi' is the second song I wrote. I am very proud of… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and… — Ben Weinman Copy Share Image
“The song of Lúthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something… — Derek E. Miller Copy Share Image