Beats Quote by Wynton Marsalis

I am an old soul: I do know so much about music history.

— Tiffany Darwish

When I was writing my autobiography, these songs came up from time to time which were important to me, and I realized that what…

— Greg Lake

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows…

— Pat Metheny

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brought to…

— Harry Belafonte

Those songs [from church], I think, shaped to some degree how I would evolve as a writer, pentameter of songs, the melodies of those…

— Dwight Yoakam

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of…

— Tom Lehrer

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses…

— George Bernard Shaw

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music…

— Henry Flynt

Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of…

— Billy Joel

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so…

— Tweet

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history,

— George Nethercutt

My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be a moment.

— Stephen Schwartz