There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say I like expressing myself in different ways. The way I can express myself in songs is awesome. What you… — Keith Stanfield Copy Share Image
I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Often, with our music, there's quite a lot going on, so people hear melodies that sound up and catchy, and production, and… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
“Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player’s legs are likely to get entangled during performance.… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
I did a really fun orange nail polish with my friend Deborah Lippmann. All of her nail polishes are named after songs… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
I think Justin Bieber played a couple of songs up the block from it - and they said that some-one in his… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my persona. I want… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
If you take a song like 'We Will, We Will Rock You,' 'You got blood on your face... ' - he's rhyming… — Gza Copy Share Image
Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a… — Maxim Knight Copy Share Image
Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote… — Kenny Hickey Copy Share Image
My mom was always listening to stuff like Madonna, Janet Jackson, a lot of pop music. And then when I would live… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
Another girl another line anothe girl pretending shes fine another hour another day she wishesshe could get away another heartbreak another tear… — Cecy Copy Share Image
It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
“Songs of longing! And they will resound in my letters, just as they always have, sometimes loudly and sometimes secretly so that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Normally on stage you don't get a second take, the song is the song and you can't go, 'Oh you know what,… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
One of my mottos for 'Currents' was 'Give the song what it deserves.' How would this song flourish? If the song could… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“This next song goes out to anybody who’s ever been told that the way that they think or the way that they… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen.… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
It always starts as journaling for me. I find if I try to write a song, it doesn't feel as sincere as… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
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