Always Quote by Lindsey Buckingham

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

— John Petrucci

“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.”

— Debasish Mridha

One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get…

— Squarepusher

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

— George Santayana

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song.…

— Vera Lynn

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

A musical by its very nature doesn't allow for a lot of nuances.

— Aparna Sen

“Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of…

— Milan Kundera

The myriad of ways that a song can be interpreted is astounding to me, and it's part of the allure of writing.

— LP

It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something…

— Mary J. Miller

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song…

— Sufjan Stevens

Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very…

— Alanis Morissette