“She once said her songs were "mostly about myths, spirits, that kind of thing. Not fairies, stronger than that." Not fairies. Stronger… — Graeme Thomson Copy Share Image
Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance… — Walter Mikac Copy Share Image
We tried to get together multiple times to make an album, but there were certain rules set in place that made it… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
You want to make music that reflects your ideals, but considering the isolating process of recording and the time and energy requirements… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
If every element of the song doesn't come within the first hour of writing, then you're never going to get it -… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
There's no real animosity, anymore... Me and Paul had a good team and we still are a good team. When Lennon died,… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
It's really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I think it's hilarious that you would give an endorsement deal to someone who you've heard their lyrics a million times and… — Lamorne Morris Copy Share Image
I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff:… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. 'Babe'… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and… — Robbie Merrill Copy Share Image
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
I'm a real stickler for a great lyric, or what I think is a great lyric. It's almost impossible for me to… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Nepotism can be one of the factors that affected the industry in the past, but today, what matters is good content, talented… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm… — Robert Jones Burdette Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Typically there are little fragments of specific words and images swimming around in my mind, and then at some point, I'll sit… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
“I'm a wordsmith. My expertise is in word formation and rhyming compilation. I'm going to revolutionize hip hop with unique, fiery lyrics… — Wade The Wordsmith Copy Share Image
I have a song I wrote called Autobiography. I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones.… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
![“Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense…” quote by Lauren Mayberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/lauren-mayberry-3504_bits_everyone-s-me-iain-cook-and-martin-doher_1387874.jpg)
