You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together. — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My childhood was full of Salil Chowdhary, R.D. Burman and Madan Mohan sahab. My father used to play with them and I… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
“Clive remained behind Simon’s knees. Simon’s Knees . . . What a great name for a band.” — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
“Find yourself a local,” she advised, “and have cake by the ocean.” When I gave her a blank look, she smacked her… — Mia Sosa Copy Share Image
The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so… — Barbara Lazear Ascher Copy Share Image
Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
I don't really work on songs when we're touring because there's just too much other stuff going on. — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
It's not that some songs are for radio and some songs aren't, I'm just making whatever I feel. — MNEK Copy Share Image
I'd say that 98 percent of the bands we've played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
The principles of punk-rock culture, of self-expression and DIY culture, that really spoke to me. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Look at me you see BLACK. I look at you I see WHITE. Now is the time to kick that away and… — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
Well, I'd like to be remembered by all my work, instead of one song. But a lot of times you get tagged… — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing,… — Brandon Heath Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront… — India Arie Copy Share Image
People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music. — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
I think my music tastes keep changing, so I think the music I make changes a little bit. — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful I can write songs. I can capture all those memories in my songs and keep those memories alive. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
“In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.” — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
