I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I have heard people giving different testimonies about what the music has done for them, for their children, for their life, for… — Rita Marley Copy Share Image
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
I would want to bring a certain kind of unity and awareness to different things. Even in the 80s, I wanted to… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
The moment when I use to play guitar Smile on my face becomes double.. The moment when I use to play guitar… — Ishmeet Copy Share Image
“isn’t this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost… — Plato Copy Share Image
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own experiences with song. It means one thing to me and it means something entirely different to somebody else.… — NAO Copy Share Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Little by little, I get to see my music reach people's hearts. There was a time when it was all part of… — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know?… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard… — Quindon Tarver 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
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like,… — Common Copy Share Image
In Shanghai, I saw great contrasts. On one street there would be impressive shops selling copies of the latest word in glamorous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I had so much to consider before I joined Led Zeppelin. It wasn't a question of who had the best prospects, but… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and… — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“A song about my life If there were to be a song ‘bout my life It would sting like a bee It… — Aman Kumar Copy Share Image
Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the… — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image