Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?' — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
“If the music is live, then there is a praise inside of you that will bring the Glory cloud realm.” — Renny McLean Copy Share Image
I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes. — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side. — Tiffany Hwang Copy Share Image
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and… — Zedd Copy Share Image
“Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which… — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Its not love for music, its a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, its about a way of… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song. — SonReal Copy Share Image
“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl. — Estelle Copy Share Image
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves. — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago. We all did. Once I was as… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image