I started realizing that when I played festivals I didn't want to be writing all these down, sad songs. — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image
Listening to songs from when you were younger and realizing how dirty the lyrics are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really enjoy working with luthiers, and have a couple of really old Les Pauls and one of my original Strats that… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there? — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
The song 'Hymnostic' is kind of a gospel song, and that song is really fun to sing with as many people as… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
“Sing me no songs of daylight, For the sun is the enemy of lovers Sing instead of shadows and darkness, And memories… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and there’s a certain attitude that… — Pokey LaFarge Copy Share Image
“A pettos speckled with gold ajiggle with a fremitus from the heart touches me like Athena's hoolet mewing in uncertain dark. So… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song… — Gotye Copy Share Image
I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
It was from the Nina Simone song 'Four Women,' and at the end of the song she sings 'peaches,' and the way… — Peaches Copy Share Image
“A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
I started playing piano around the age of five and, you know, I fell in love with music. — Brooke Hogan Copy Share Image
“Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words. — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be… — Lemmy Copy Share Image
If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so… — Adele Copy Share Image
All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by name. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve… — Tom Cochrane Copy Share Image
I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place… — Brynn Cartelli Copy Share Image
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul. — Rosalia Copy Share Image
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got. — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
