Concentration Quote by Levon Helm

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song…

— Yip Harburg

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

— Drake Bell

The song tells me what to play.

— Joe Walsh

The meaning of the words in my songs are very important to me. But what's most important to me is that the music works.

— Julia Holter

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.

— Stevie Wonder

“Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It pulls you…

— Michelle Frost

When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling…

— Ilaiyaraaja

If you can sing it, you can play it.

— Jackie McLean

The heart that feels music will feel people

— Shinichi Suzuki

Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It’s a drug and makes you feel whatever the song’s about.

— Ed Westwick

You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can…

— Wilfrid Sheed