Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
People were like, "Someone who made a song like this, there has to be more to them. I'm interested in hearing how… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time,… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up… — Michael Patrick Walker Copy Share Image
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I've always written songs from a sad place. I can't think of one good song that I have written in a happy… — Ty Stone Copy Share Image
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
“When we can't find my sister, we know / she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, / a… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When I started doing these advocacy groups, it sort of propelled and compelled me to write songs, because otherwise I wasn't really… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
“He leans over and puts the radio on. It’s Jason Donovan’s ‘Sealed With A Kiss’. ‘I love the music they play up… — Gemma Burgess Copy Share Image
I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any songs that I've written in the past that I now disagree. It's kind of like tattoos;… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
“ Children's Song We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I think my first hit was the first song I ever wrote. I actually wrote it in 2005 in college. The title… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
“ The Arrow and the Song I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“THE music stopped. The circle broke. Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation. In the sway of… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
With my career, everything I do is me. There's no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
![“I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/590/elie-wiesel-341_attributes_i-read-the-text-and-then-i-come-to-the-s_340239.jpg)
![“I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same…” quote by Gordon Lightfoot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/324/gordon-lightfoot-7499_albums_i-went-on-tours-with-bob-dylan-the-big-o_2155274.jpg)
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)