A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I've never felt anything that moves me as much as my piano. I'm an emotional player. I don't really like people. I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully… — Dennis Wilson Copy Share Image
Everyone was saved once by music. So I decided to REALLY work on my songs and not just "play" - to make… — Marilou Copy Share Image
It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that… — Chuck Comeau Copy Share Image
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My… — Damien Dempsey Copy Share Image
“Sing me a pretty love song as I start to cry Tell me you love me as you wipe the blood from… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I don't think we care anymore about what we're gonna do. We're just gonna be our own band and we're not gonna… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it… — Steve Berlin Copy Share Image
The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot… — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I think that many of the issues they were facing in South Africa were the same as those I was singing about.… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I consider myself primarily a songwriter first, so the goal is to write songs that might be personal, but that people can… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate… — John Bush Copy Share Image
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
