When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is… — Howie Dorough Copy Share Image
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to. — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record. — Beck Copy Share Image
There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My love is like an ocean It goes down so deep My love is like a rose Whose beauty you want to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I… — Mika Copy Share Image
Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have… — Babatunde Olatunji Copy Share Image
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
“I had often envisioned my funeral—me lying against the rose-colored satin, looking utterly stunning, U2’ s and Ed Sheeran’s sadder songs playing… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . .… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do. — Keith Morris Copy Share Image
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Prakash Jha is an intense filmmaker, he is a perfectionist. He would never have a song just for the sake of it. — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
You have to be very strong to play my music. The drummer has to be in great shape. Same with the guitarist.… — Chubby Checker Copy Share Image
I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song. — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that? — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
The most beautiful music in the world is your own HEARTBEAT because GOD composed it.. — Myself Copy Share Image
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has… — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
I like to record alone. A lot of people like to have parties in their studio sessions, but I like to focus… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace. — TobyMac Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, I went to see Cream play. I thought they were the best band in the world. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
