If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think my least favourite thing to listen to is perfect songs, perfect performances. They don't feel human to me, and in… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I… — John McCormack Copy Share Image
Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New York and produced by Kramer.… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my… — Betty Who Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Music that's existed for centuries.… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I'm so hard on myself that when I'm in the studio, I'll write 10 songs and only use one. So those nine… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A frustration that I've had recently is that a lot of songs that I listen to draw on scenarios that aren't very… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet.… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
That's why these songs have lasted as long as they have because they're just about feelings that don't change. They are love… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Songs are like my children, from the concept phase, to writing, to recording, then editing and all of the work that went… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs.… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my… — D. Imman Copy Share Image
For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
