Growing up I listened to a lot of Billy Joel, Sam Smith, Adele, Stevie Wonder, and Queen; these are artists who use… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project.… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had… — Gene Ween Copy Share Image
I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention.… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we… — Bode Miller Copy Share Image
I could write a million songs about the way you say my name. I could live a lifetime with you and then… — YANIE-MyPrecious Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that.… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
I like songs that can be dark or threatening or dangerous, but its a better song if you can keep that and… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time warp,… — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than… — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the… — Laura Adams Armer Copy Share Image
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years,… — Philip Selway Copy Share Image
What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You… — Jim Varney Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I have always had to write songs. As a lifestyle and as a business model, it's pretty difficult. Largely at this point… — Doug Walters Copy Share Image
The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming… — John Entwistle Copy Share Image
I make up stories in my head all the time, but I've never written them down. But I write a lot of… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific… — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
I gave myself a year to write as many songs as I could, and then I made a shortlist of about 10,… — G Flip Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
