I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk… — Kid Rock 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
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Normally the meaning of the songs, if there is any, occurs to me after I've written the song. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Your songs are still out there on the clifftop, hanging in the air for you when you want them. Wish to speak… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs. — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
LORD WE COME YOU ASKING you for the strength and the guidance to be man enough to protect our children till the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD. — Young Thug Copy Share Image
There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go… — Beck Copy Share Image
“Softly the breezes from the forest came, Softly they blew aside the taper's flame; Clear was the song from Philomel's far bower;… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more.… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“Yesterday night gave birth To a song, spirited and sprightly; It made my soul sparkle too, And since then, I have been… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.' — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
