“Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!” — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music. — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
I let the music do the talking, and people are still getting feelings from my songs. — Craig David Copy Share Image
A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Believe me, I love Apple...but iTunes shouldn't be the answer. For artists, it should be the scariest thing in the world. — Will I Am Copy Share Image
“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
“She took great pains, and it irritated and tortured her, this getting a song right. In the end, no one might be… — Joanne Horniman Copy Share Image
Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me. — John Wesley Harding Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion. — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
'Zara Thehro' stemmed from a thought of marrying two separate thoughts - musical and conceptual. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections.… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
No one can make me cry Make me laugh Make me smile Or drive me mad like she does — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of… — Louise Talma Copy Share Image
Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing. — Karen White Copy Share Image
In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw… — Boy George Copy Share Image
They say that love is forever, your forever is all that I need. - Sleeping With Sirens — Amanda Copy Share Image
Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“What kind of songs do you like? she asked. "The ones that remind me of you," I said.” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“I got the Eye of the Tiger The Fire Dancing through the fire Cause I am a Champion! And your gonna hear… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Silat is not just block and punch; it has a specific rhythm to it, a dynamic to it. — Iko Uwais Copy Share Image
When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you. — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's… — Phil Ehart Copy Share Image
John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
People get into metal and they don't drift away from it. They might have families and move away a little, but they… — Steve Harris Copy Share Image
I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do. — Tom Scharpling Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a… — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
![“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.” quote by Paul Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/paul-stanley-9031_ed-sullivan_i-saw-the-beatles-on-the-ed-sullivan-sho_3106501.jpg)
![“I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.jpg)
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