All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same. — James Righton Copy Share Image
I don't know any songs. People have asked me to play a song, and I say, "I don't know anything." — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
It's a matter of people closing their eyes and opening their ears. If people are able to do that, then music is… — Howie Dorough Copy Share Image
I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to. — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. — Jeffrey Osborne Copy Share Image
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record. — Beck Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I get total creative control when I'm in the studio now to do what I want to do. If I feel like… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said,… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked. — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do. — Keith Morris Copy Share Image
To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Prakash Jha is an intense filmmaker, he is a perfectionist. He would never have a song just for the sake of it. — Sameera Reddy Copy Share Image
What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Copy Share Image
It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I play my music the same way because people expect it to sound exactly the way it does on the radio. — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
“But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn’t avoid, like alcohol, or death.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Lets Start a war! Isnt it it obvious what were fighting for,Fighting for all those who feel alone, Giving them shelter by… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician.… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“If you listen to my words you'll understand how I really feel inside...I can't express my feelings to you, but I can… — Matthew Trevitz Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil. It was "Here I… — David Wong Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production. — Ryan Cabrera Copy Share Image
I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
