Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Blake had picked the song for their first dance, and Livia laughed when she realized they’d selected music by the same artist,… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric… — Leo Kottke Copy Share Image
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Draft Three Because I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with… — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
“For two full days we picked green beans out in the field, under the molten rays of the summer sun, rows and… — Richard Horan Copy Share Image
I can say that on the record 'Transit of Venus,' there's maybe one or two songs that actually do come from my… — Adam Gontier Copy Share Image
“In his Dialogue "Timaeus" Plato had a demiurge to create the globe-shaped world according to musical laws, including the human soul. Fifteen… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please"… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and… — Mirah Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Shania Twain. I would always go sing the song 'Honey I'm Home.' I… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
“A fool sings what he will, the master told his anxious princess, "You must not take his word to heart. On the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“It's only when we understand [Jesus'] presence in the church as being the fulfillment of God's promise in Zephaniah 3:17 to "quiet… — Reggie M. Kidd Copy Share Image
There's a song called 'Slip To The Void,' which is fairly long and has more of an epic approach. And I guess… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I believe that Bruce Springsteen is terrific, but I don't think he's God. That's the only real disagreement between me and my… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed.… — Rhett Miller Copy Share Image
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Music can provide a much-needed break from life's harsh moments, but Eddy Current Suppression Ring has no interest in creating a sonic… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!'… — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image