Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart. — Leif Garrett Copy Share Image
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
He swift don't win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
If you create something, it really should mean something more than that to you. I had to grow into all of this… — Jlin Copy Share Image
“My father was quiet ' she told him. 'My mother was not. They were polar opposites but you'd think they were a… — Amalie Howard Copy Share Image
Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church,… — Nelson Searcy Copy Share Image
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it,… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings. — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's universal. — Abderrahmane Sissako Copy Share Image
I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar. — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I was a huge Jonas Brothers fan, unapologetically, when I was 12 or 13. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers. — Charlie Rich Copy Share Image
