I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to… — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
Songs make a lot of sense. They bring out some of the best moves we got. Weather thats dancing or being hyped… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“Can we wait just a minute Turn that TV off for a minute Now politics and talkin shit aint really none of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Not everybody is going to like what I do or get what I do. With as much positive, you always get the… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
When my song "Danny Glover" leaked, I was a little bummed, but it finally allowed Kanye West [to listen]. One of my… — Young Thug Copy Share Image
If you can say something special on the guitar, then you're going to perk my ears up. But if you're just gonna… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I love Miley Cyrus. "We Can't Stop" is my ringtone. It's, like, one of eight songs that I have on my phone.… — Molly Tarlov Copy Share Image
I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit";… — Jose James Copy Share Image
It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
“Afterward Hunter drew her gently into his arms and reminded her of the promises he had made her, that she would never… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I started making hip-hop music when I was 11, and pretty much since then I've just been honing that craft, the craft… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
The beat comes from your heat, the lyrics comes from your head, and the words comes from your soul. you need you… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
Once I had the band, Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] - it's very exciting to have that trio of… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out… — Carole King Copy Share Image
I was a theater major, and I remember being in college, and whenever my professor would assign me songs that I hated,… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God,… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with labels, there's so much red tape. There's roll-out. There's releases. You've got to do it the right way.… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in… — Junior Kimbrough Copy Share Image
There's no place for Depeche Mode and the Sisters of Mercy in the music I make with my band. If I was… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself.… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
One thing I'm big on is believing in giving an album time. I'll say you'll have to give an album three years… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
![“When my song "Danny Glover" leaked, I was a little bummed, but it finally allowed Kanye West [to listen]. One of my biggest surprises was his reaction: he liked [it] and he said he wanted to make a record together.” quote by Young Thug](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d86/young-thug-15422_kanye-west_when-my-song-danny-glover-leaked-i-was-a_521089.jpg)
![“Once I had the band, Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] - it's very exciting to have that trio of just world-class guys - I already knew it was going to be fantastic. I didn't really tell them anything about it. They didn't know what they were going to play beforehand.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7b9/jose-james-22349_band_once-i-had-the-band-jason-moran-and-john_2282255.jpg)
![“Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those kind of hillbilly hymns - I used to refer to them - because they were not Southern gospel as much as they were passed down from Scottish Welsh Protestant hymnals.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/71f/dwight-yoakam-9632_christianity_those-songs-from-church-i-think-shaped-t_613462.jpg)
![“Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.” quote by Arthur Fogel](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/661/arthur-fogel-83203_business_before-the-whole-music-business-was-cali_417500.jpg)
