As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano. — Anthony Warlow Copy Share Image
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker. — Bruce Johnston Copy Share Image
I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It's not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I've laid. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by… — Clifton Collins, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd sell my soul just to see your face. And I'd break my bones just to heal your pain. In these times… — Florida Georgia Line Copy Share Image
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and… — Tony Conrad Copy Share Image
Artists have different stages in their career, from George Michael via Wham! to people like Kylie. A change of perception is what's… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled… — Too Short Copy Share Image
I want my music to sound good on whatever people are listening - laptop speakers, those crappy little white ones you get… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound. — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.' — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
Every time I record a song and I really like it, I like giving my audience something to look forward to -… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
With this shit this song's complete. Move your body super sweet. Always like an ice cream treat — Blood On The Dance Floor Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You. — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the… — John Oates Copy Share Image
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
