“I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain.… — Jon Skovron Copy Share Image
Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
“Your song crept over me as I drifted, the room spinning ever so slightly, and I rolled onto my side and pulled… — Steve Brezenoff Copy Share Image
Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that… — Rosemary Clooney Copy Share Image
When I was in L.A. in the 80s I got talking to Bruce Springsteen at a dinner party about the Harley-Davidson I'd… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
I've stolen music before, I don't know anyone who hasn't. But if you're gonna do that, I want you to be able… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
At Pinetop I just studied music, and there was no pressure to look any certain way, and so being able to sing… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing.… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me…Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money…Like Makaveli, every… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think that a great song needs the full package. I think that a great song needs everything from lyrics, to melody,… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
The musical style and sound of 'Love You to Death' is something I wanted to do from the moment I started working… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“He had heard it sure enough, wailing underground in clubs and speakeasies, all through Prohibition, hot, polyphonic, toe-tapping, full of syncopated rhythms… — Nicole Mones Copy Share Image
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because… — Jain Copy Share Image
I like being able to own things, to not have to depend on music to support myself. Music hadn't supported me since… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
“[D]id you ever notice how friendships are a lot like pop songs? They are for girls, anyway. First there's the newness of… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
Before we started writing we did feel pressure because of the success of the first record. One of the first songs that… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
In hindsight I might have chosen a different path and everything but I still make music, I have a core following that… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
It could be the old man I see at the store or the chick I see walking down the block. Normal people… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write… — Courtney Hood Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing… — Jain Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Song Like You' the day I recognized that someone who was really important to me was not actually very good… — Bea Miller Copy Share Image
I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs… — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
![“[D]id you ever notice how friendships are a lot like pop songs? They are for girls, anyway. First there's the newness of it, the melody that streams into your head and makes you wonder ― will I like this song? Then come the vocals, what the song's heart truly sounds like, and with it the song's…” quote by Brando Skyhorse](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/07c/brando-skyhorse-52565_difficult-time_d-id-you-ever-notice-how-friendships-are_1371199.jpg)
