When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands.… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
My two young producers, Fernando Perdomo and Chris Price, had to explain to me that there's a division right now between the… — Linda Perhacs Copy Share Image
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
We haven't started playing it live yet but we're going to. And then 'Warpaint' is a song that's really, really close to… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear some music in my head or I'll go to the piano and mess around and come up with a… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry… — Sark Copy Share Image
Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Guy Picciotto had a really sound point: Live albums basically have bands playing songs that are available on studio records, and what… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I've been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a… — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
I kind of, I have quite a clear idea of what I'm trying to do with a record. A Super Furry Animals… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Theres something inside me waiting to explode, I am writing this now to let you know. Every heart has a song, and… — Raina Chapman Copy Share Image
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I was producing the first solo album, i just wanted to convey some messages through it. The message was 'no blood… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I was attracted to the aesthetics of post-punk bands and also their specific histories. Some of these acts could have achieved the… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
“She loved your mother', Taliesin said gently. 'This is her farewell.' As he spoke, a chanted melody began inside the chamber, a… — Rosalind Miles Copy Share Image
I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I have a song I wrote called Autobiography. I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
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