Always Quote by Alex G

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

— Aaron Copland

Usually we're all comfortable playing the songs, but during the song there might be one part where you're like „oh, this part's coming up,…

— John Petrucci

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics…

— Edward Albee

I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill…

— John Prine

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes…

— David Berman

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music…

— Courtney Barnett

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting…

— Gustav Ejstes

If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.

— Jack White

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put…

— Peter Gabriel

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to…

— Robert Wyatt

What I find really interesting about our songs is that one part might sound completely different from another, but they fit together almost in…

— Fab Moretti

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

— David Cook