Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The song Of Heaven is ever new; for daily thus, And nightly, new discoveries are made Of God's unbounded wisdom, power, and… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
“Song of songs 8:6-7 6Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as… — Aderinsola Obasa Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“I didn't intend to give up music. In fact I needed it. I craved it. I longed for it with such ferocity,… — Stormy Smith Copy Share Image
It has been wild, you know? I started out just putting a song that I made out on the Internet without being… — Post Malone Copy Share Image
Jiyong hyung's mind can go wild and think a lot of things. This was my first time writing my own lyrics so… — Seungri Copy Share Image
Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I think that that spirit, or at least the raucousness of maybe that, is in there. And then yeah, like, along the… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
You can begin right now to feel healthy You can begin to feel prosperous. You can begin to feel the love that's… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a… — Jane McDonald Copy Share Image
Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to demystify a song when saying what… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
General end up inna funeral, now dem want I fi come ah dem Yard! Those devils have been around for thousands of… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the… — Papa John Creach Copy Share Image
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating… — Anohni Copy Share Image
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I think we got started like all bands. We wanted to make some noise, hang out, and have some fun. Remember, we're… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
“All that's happened is inconsequential; it cannot hurt us anymore; there's only music, which lives within us and beyond us, needing us… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16,… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
