When the lyrics to a song relate so much to you, you feel like that person wrote it for your soul. — Evangeline Willis Copy Share Image
You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
If you listen to a song like 'Sodade' from Caesaria Evoria, eventually you can sing the words just like she does. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Well I've been playing an SG forever, and I've got some other vintage Gibsons I like to use in the studio. — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it. — Don Pullen Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
“Through my history's despite and ruin, I have come to its remainder, and here have made the beginning of a farm intended… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all… — Cassiodorus Copy Share Image
There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
As a musician, I realize I am not only responsible for the music that I put out, but also for my actions… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural. — Mabel Copy Share Image
Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army. — John Belushi Copy Share Image
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny. — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if… — Lisa Lewis Copy Share Image
My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I was a punk when I was 15 - I was definitely into it in a big way and loved it -… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
Even though there's only two guys in the band, when both of us are on the same page about something, you can't… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was 'Please Please Me.' I'd… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I feel blessed to travel the world and land in a place where, when I sing my songs, they sing along with… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis Copy Share Image
