I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a… — Jacques Villeneuve Copy Share Image
I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song,… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
Whenever I write my music, it's always been in English first and then I take it into Korean. — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
I tried writing a song and it wasn't very good. I sung it to my mom and she told me it was… — Doja Cat Copy Share Image
I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. — Dave Edmunds Copy Share Image
I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Rain,Rain go away that's what all my haters say is in a song I wrote it means to put the past behind… — Gabby Victoria Copy Share Image
People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
People around me are always an inspiration due to their love of the music and they help me to generate ideas for… — Chingy Copy Share Image
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you. — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a song that plays you when you share it with the people who matter the most” — Emily Murdoch Copy Share Image
My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts… — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
“Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out. — Natalie MacMaster Copy Share Image
When I recorded 'Unlovable', I had a lump in my throat. It was moving, but I wasn't sure if people wanted me… — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat. — Brian May Copy Share Image
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens… — Burton Cummings Copy Share Image
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. — Compay Segundo Copy Share Image
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place. — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens — Barry Gibb Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
