I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“love is like a song a friend is like a four leaf clover it brings you luck” — needa Copy Share Image
If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . . — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. — Bill Haley Copy Share Image
(For songwriters) Development of your facility as a musician is also important. — Ryan Cayabyab Copy Share Image
The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most. — Mod Sun Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
Being in a band is being punk, no matter what. You have to dedicate your life to it. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. — Jane Monheit Copy Share Image
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again. — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
Most fans probably wouldn't understand that because they're not in bands, but when there's too many cooks in the kitchen it can… — Dino Cazares Copy Share Image
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can.… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
“ Song of a Second April APRIL this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago Is full of whispers, full… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round... — Holly Near Copy Share Image
If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
