It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National;… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. — Beck Copy Share Image
I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
“You can curse the moon Curse the day your’re born But the pilot of your plane is you We’re all in this… — Phyllis Wheaton Copy Share Image
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort. — John Berryman Copy Share Image
When you hear people scream because they're about to hear a song that has been a part of their life, there's nothing… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made.… — Lotte Verbeek Copy Share Image
I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind. — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Well after 'Fast Car' was so huge, everyone was asking me, 'What's the next song?' At the time I just had ideas… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
You are the song in my heart and the happiness in my smile. The love in my eyes. Your voice of my… — Janelle J Copy Share Image
There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things? — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
My debut single "Pointless Relationship" is about a girl's view of where the relationship is going with her partner and it sounds… — Tammin Sursok Copy Share Image
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
Testify' went from a clean Motown song to straight psychedelic. Loud and feedback and people was loving it, because Motown was ending… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song! — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers” — Oscar Zeta Acosta Copy Share Image
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image