What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology. — Mitski Copy Share Image
Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are… — RM Copy Share Image
We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
It's amazing how I still remember the lyrics of an old song, but I can't remember the things I studied the night… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process. — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
“The video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” was on MTV when we set off in July, but on the first few dates… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
“In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
I, I love you like a love song baby...and I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat. — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
A song cannot be a gimmick as it requires talent and hard work. But if it is placed wrongly, then it can… — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song. — Bradley Sands Copy Share Image
I believe a great song will always attract its audience and get is due. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing a song for myself is that I always, always, always want to write a song. I always want… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste. — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
Follow me and do exactly what the song says, smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people, and drink, and jump… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
Songs sort of come from everywhere - people, places, coffee, the aisles of Target... I tend to write pretty autobiographical so a… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
It was so cool to be listening to, I don't know, some Cocteau Twins song while I was running through the Slovakian… — Esme Creed-Miles Copy Share Image
Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that… — Larry Norman Copy Share Image
'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image