Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
“To play in an orchestra, we need not master every instrument. We must simply learn to play our own. But first, we… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
I really like 'I See You.' It was therapeutic to write and singing it is really like therapy. — Adore Delano Copy Share Image
“Feel the astounding rhythm of the music pumped out from nature and life itself.” — Raz Mihal Copy Share Image
Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two. — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Song Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who… — John Donne Copy Share Image
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm sad about everything; the way my grilled cheese sandwich tastes, how nice my socks feel, a song John is playing… — Nina Riggs Copy Share Image
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I feel like my music is for everybody. As long as the music is good, I can please everybody. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I sang in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne,' I never imagined the song would be such a rage. — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Music has this ability to bridge time. You can hear a song from the 1920s and still be like, 'Oh, that's it.… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic. — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors. — Shaan Copy Share Image
Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with… — Clinton Scollard Copy Share Image
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes. — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Alex Van Halen... I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female. — Eminem Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five for Fighting Copy Share Image
