Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Music may give ya an illusion of happiness,but illusions don't solve real problems!You may feel good for a second,but the next moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration:… — Osho Copy Share Image
Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my… — TobyMac Copy Share Image
Most bands, when they sign with a major, are from an indie. They usually start off with a big dilemma. They think… — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I always knew I would do music. At first, I wanted to play basketball, and when I let go of that dream… — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“Life is a song. Your heart is the beat, your word is the lyric, your move is the dance. And love, love… — Gkynwin Copy Share Image
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Jazz at Lincoln Center is something that is very necessary for the creative process. There's a couple of brothers running around New… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I've been doing morning pages: the first thing I do when I wake up is sit down and write three pages of… — T. Mills Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and… — Yuna Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
“the way the music was written seemed to be individualized, meaning that each person that listened to the music heard something different;… — Jamie Magee Copy Share Image
I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened… — Too Short Copy Share Image
'Climb Every Mountain' is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think 'The Sound of Music' is saccharine, but I think it's… — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing,… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge,… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image
I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you Lovin' you I… — Minnie Riperton Copy Share Image
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do you know what you did?'… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
