Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work,… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
I never listen to any of my music after it comes out, unless I hear it in a cafe or whatever. I'll… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
A lot of my friends are doctors, and the difference between me and them is there's no musical emergencies to pull me… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
The first 'Blackout!' just started out with us doing the first song, 'How High' - I guess it was 'How High' -… — Redman Copy Share Image
“Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they… — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I… — Agent M Copy Share Image
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Were a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, were a little different. There are the songs on… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
You can't write a song out of thin air. You have to feel and know what you are writing about. ... Talent… — Irving Berlin Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you happen to run across a brilliant run of radio songs, where each tie one station goes to commercial, you scan… — John Green Copy Share Image
The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
If you're always on the road and you're writing from hotel rooms, or in a van, the songs are just going to… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
“My head rested against your chest like a love song is the rhythm of your heart... That seems to be a serenade… — Nyki Mack Copy Share Image
“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“February Boris Pasternak It's February. Get ink. Weep. Write the heart out about it, sing Another song of February While raucous slush… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with 'Runaround Sue,' it's… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
“There’s a country song about this. Deana Carter sings about it. Lady Antebellum sings about it. Gosh, not just country artists. Katy… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Jaden Smith is a good friend of mine. We've got that song that just dropped on the 'Rich Forever II' tape, and… — Rich the Kid Copy Share Image
The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a… — David Longstreth 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
“Is that why you play the music so loud? A beat to drown out the thoughts, sound so high you cannot think,… — Courtney Peppernell Copy Share Image
I feel like there are a lot of artists that you could put together that you love, but it doesn't necessarily mean… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I'm hoping there's cohesion in these tracks. Some of them were made weeks ago, some were made in 2010, but they've all… — Ryan Hemsworth Copy Share Image
The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say… — Lauren Hart Copy Share Image
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image