Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary… — Patty Schemel Copy Share Image
I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in… — Doc Pomus Copy Share Image
I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is… — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
"Alleluia" song is a street hymn in the sense that it's all about culture.It's almost a juxtaposition of the prayers of the… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
“Then, with a start, I understand something. It is music. I am certain--I mean, I just know--that all these different species are… — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
When I first got into country, I was trying to do the traditional country thing, and I still have a heart for… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
“I pull my iPod out of my backpack and plug it in. It's the first thing I do every time I get… — Heather Gunter Copy Share Image
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“Music is like medicine. It can bring relief to the aches and stressful situations that life brings. We live in a world… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't really have an ambition to become the Rolling Stones, or anything like that. For me, it's just playing music is… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
“The second ceremony, are the musical instruments, which began to be used in the service of the church, in the time of… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“Every song is for you. The good ones, the bad ones – they are all for you. You are in my thoughts… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
We had an extreme reaction to Storm Corrosion. We were proud of it, but it divided the audience. The metal fans were… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying… — A.C. Newman Copy Share Image
I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio.… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,'… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
When I make a song, I actually literally talk to one person on purpose... I don't focus on, are people in Chicago… — Too Short Copy Share Image
