Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first… — Cary Brothers Copy Share Image
After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that… — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
I got thrust a guitar by my mum as a little kid and always played it. I sort of fell in and… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
What I find really interesting about our songs is that one part might sound completely different from another, but they fit together… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
The relationship in Pantera and with Damageplan is the opposite of the traditional rhythm section. It's me and Dime, not the bass,… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
First song I write, me go to my mother, and she say, 'Write love songs.' She's one of the oldest, so she's… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole… — Akon Copy Share Image
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“George, we're the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we're from Hollywood, California, we're really hard-rocking motherfuckers, and we think you should produce our… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it.… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I… — John Muir Copy Share Image
For us, we've always felt compelled to talk about the realities of life. That's where we come from, from that first Cypress… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who… — Deanna Durbin Copy Share Image
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
The best part about Chickenfoot is that nobody needs the money. We've got nothing we need to prove to anybody. We wanted… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I always feel like I want to write a song when I'm really upset. And when I'm in an argument with my… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it,… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to… — Billy Preston Copy Share Image
I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974,… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
“Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image