Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews,… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir,… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a… — Meaghan Rath Copy Share Image
I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles.… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least,… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got… — Sly Stone Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too… — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“Did you say all that you meant to Before the curtain closed? Or did you feel so much more Than we'll ever… — Margo T. Rose Copy Share Image
I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I hear from the business community all the time that what they need is an educated work force. They need an infrastructure… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put… — Ronnie Hawkins Copy Share Image
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
While visiting Costa Rica, I was inspired to hear that someone had donated a playground to a local school. So when I… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
When I hear that a project takes place out of town, the material better be terrific, and it has to come at… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally,… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
