Animal Quote by Nick Cave

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

— Conor Oberst

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The…

— Benjamin Britten

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful…

— Criss Jami

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

A lot of music comes from a selfish place…

— Vince Staples

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and…

— Sarah Churchwell

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

— James Taylor

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they…

— Hiromi

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety…

— Thomas Morley

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a…

— James Taylor

People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature…

— Brian Wilson