[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song. — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy. — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and the and the things that come to your mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes. — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous...… — Jack Endino Copy Share Image
I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
My favorite over the years is probably 'All I Have to Give.' That's probably my favorite. It's one of the first songs… — Howie Dorough Copy Share Image
I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the… — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't… — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex. — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
“He had braces, sported a black Limp Bizkit Tshirt. Limp Bizkit is a band that was popular at the time. If you’re… — David Wong Copy Share Image
When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
“The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist. — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer. — Barry White Copy Share Image
Up above my head...there's music in the air. Oh, I really do believe there must be heaven somewhere. — Ruthie Foster Copy Share Image
Some songs can make you cry When you hear them. But Actually it isnt the songs, Its the people behind the memories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my escape; from all the lies, all the drama, all the confusion, all the hurt. Music is my escape from… — Rihanna A Mohammed Copy Share Image
“You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“You are my song, my dark blue dream Of doves, of winter's drowsy drone, And sleighs that slow and golden go Through… — Velimir Khlebnikov Copy Share Image
I was singing from the time I was 6 years old - at banquets and school shows back in Oklahoma. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop, — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow. — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost” — Greg Hamerton Copy Share Image
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