If I write you a song, will you listen? If I make you dinner, will you eat it? If I give you… — Akki Copy Share Image
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max… — Abbey Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Put your arms around my neck, sweetheart." "Whatever for?" He grasped her wrists and lifted her arms himself. "Because," he whispered, "we're… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a… — Kenneth A. Myers Copy Share Image
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“When I pick songs for karaoke, I have three concerns: (1) What will this song say about me? (2) How will I… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn't like it, and then it doesn't get released. It could… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing.… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, one of my favorite songs is 'La Marseillaise'. I'll watch Casablanca just to hear it. It is enough… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
“Our memories and the songs that carry them forward to the next generations speak to the manner of where we have come… — D.A. Lockhart Copy Share Image
If you hadn't seen what we looked like, you would have thought we were a punk band. I remember going down to… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse, and then they… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mean, the great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
“New eyes awaken. I send Love's name into the world with wings And songs grow up around me like a jungle. Choirs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I was hanging out in New York City and started getting into the new sounds that were being created, and started playing… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I think when I was younger I was quite adamant not to write love songs. One, probably because I had never been… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
“the sea can be the palimpsest for all words and also tune to set them to and… — Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia Copy Share Image
I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from,… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I'm grateful every day that there's so… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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