I started writing more like Bossa Nova style songs after…

Bossa nova is about how you can express yourself without being too loud. It's a quiet way of singing, almost spoken. That was one…

— Laufey

I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead…

— Bernie Leadon

I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen…

— Tom Odell

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

— Bonnie McKee

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a…

— Regina Spektor

In Sandalwood, each hero has a style and songs are composed accordingly.

— Arjun Janya

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style…

— Tom Lehrer

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of…

— Tom Lehrer

My style of songs will never get old because the music is very catchy.

— Bappi Lahiri

I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play…

— Amber Mark

I was playing acoustic bossa nova music in a trio, and Tucker was the DJ that night. He came early and saw what we…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in love with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa nova, the language and the…

— Johnny Mathis

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

— Camila Mendes

“Astrud Gilberto sang an old bossa nova song. “Take me to Aruanda,” she sang. I closed my eyes, and the clatter of the cups…

— Haruki Murakami

When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I…

— M. Ward