A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics. — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs. — Don Dokken Copy Share Image
We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles. — Jaime Preciado Copy Share Image
I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums. — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting. — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and… — Jewel Copy Share Image
In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that… — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I remember the audition process for Xena: Warrior Princess; I was driving there and I was listening to The Cranberries' "Dreams," so… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
“The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'd like to write songs for other people, see things from a different perspective. I'd like to watch things from the dugout… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the… — Terry Kath Copy Share Image
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to. — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself. — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
You know, being able to, in my mind, have a song that you know doesn't really have any loose ends or you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done. — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
I'm not concerned at all to have a number one song or a top 10 or top 50 or top whatever. — Anitta Copy Share Image
If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was… — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to. — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
My goal is just to be real and bring people good music and let them enjoy the music that I bring. — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
