American Quote by Chris Thile

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I…

— Tori Amos

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

— Ashley Judd

What I've learned from my gurus is that when you hear music, you hear a person, or you hear people, and you hear everything…

— Vijay Iyer

Music is important.

— Jessi Colter

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

— Peabo Bryson

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a…

— Nate Ruess

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

— Ry Cooder

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

— Simon Raymonde

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror…

— Phil Ochs

What I place most importance on is trying to create more opportunities to showcase the music, in a way that new listeners will be…

— Joe Hisaishi

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an…

— Carl Jung