What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out.… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
Blur' is about feeling lost, and on a personal level I would be lying if I didn't mention that this song, for… — MO Copy Share Image
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“He chanted a song of wizardry, of piercing, opening, of treachery, 490 revealing, uncovering, betraying. Then sudden Felagund there swaying sang in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps one of those imponderables of life that many people declare their dislike for poetry, yet it surrounds us in… — Jeanette O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea.… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know,… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It's one I've developed with Dream… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I remember hearing, back in the day, so-and-so got a deal, and bands are spending the money. Some of them live in… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
I really hope that with my album, because I have a bit more of a mainstream crossover following, I really hope that… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Always Love' in 10 minutes. It's a very positive song, more positive than I am in reality, but I was… — Matthew Caws Copy Share Image
Typically, when I am creating individual songs, I like to listen to beats, feel the vibe and create off of that. I… — Koffee Copy Share Image
I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The way I picked the tracks for '99.9%' was based on the feeling of, 'Is this going to be a hit?' I… — Kaytranada Copy Share Image
The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“...the Beatles were hard men too. Brian Epstein cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries,… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
