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One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. -- Len G. Murray
I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first. -- Lauryn Hill
George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique. -- Gary Wright
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. -- Tre Cool
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. -- Max Schneider
Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music. -- Tom Odell
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. -- Pope John Paul II
I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. -- Michael Kiwanuka
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. -- Anthony Minghella
I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs. -- George Stroumboulopoulos
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. -- Gary Wright
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music. -- Conway Twitty
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. -- Colin Farrell
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. -- Ray LaMontagne
Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. -- Chip Esten
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen. -- R. Kelly
I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song. -- John Frusciante
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. -- Moby
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song. -- Alex Ebert
Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music. -- Johnny Ramistella
I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song. -- Jason Aldean
I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me. -- Mac Miller
A song is a poem set to music. -- Tom T. Hall
A love song is just a caress set to music. -- Sigmund Romberg
Life is one grand sweet song so start the music -- Ronald Reagan
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. -- Ronald Reagan
Any piece of good music is in essence a love song. -- Diana Gabaldon
Philosophy is the song of love with the music of morals. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. -- Lord Byron
I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial. -- Hoagy Carmichael
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along. -- Pete Townshend
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O. -- Ira Gershwin
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. -- John Lydon
Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. -- Alasdair Gray
This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music. -- Brad Paisley
Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile. -- Steven Erikson
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. -- Zooey Deschanel
I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. -- Hilary Duff
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. -- Louis Armstrong
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever. -- SonReal
Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought. -- E. Y. Harburg
The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song. -- Sarah McCoy
What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music. -- Kate Bush
No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock. -- Dave Grohl
I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song. -- Kate Nash
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music. -- Conway Twitty
We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. -- Brian Harvey
I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.' -- Janelle Monae
Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music. -- Debasish Mridha
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart, -- Bernard of Clairvaux
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. -- Kevin Bacon
My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song. -- Joseph Bruce
What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life. -- David Archuleta
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home. -- Levon Helm
Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write. -- Britney Spears
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music. -- John Tesh
Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars -- Susan Polis Schutz
The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. -- Lotte Lehmann
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. -- E. Y. Harburg
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. -- E. Y. Harburg
I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music. -- Brian Posehn
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. -- Anne Carson
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. -- Henry Rollins
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. -- Henry Rollins
You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong. -- Munia Khan
I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great. -- Ben E. King
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. -- Deepak Chopra
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. -- Sade Adu
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. -- Grace Slick
I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. -- Pete Seeger
I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. -- Colin Meloy
I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song. -- Cynthia Addai-Robinson
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. -- Paul McCartney
Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song. -- Peggy Toney Horton
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music. -- Meryl Streep
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon. -- King Khan
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. -- Franz Liszt
I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song. -- Chamillionaire
when the mind runs free , write a song . music pours happiness into the soul and a happy soul creates eternal success -- Kelsey Valentine
Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written. -- Peggy Toney Horton
The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal. -- Charles King
The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make. -- Justin Vernon
I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music. -- Josh Klinghoffer
I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music. -- Rick James
I want to do music that holds the heart of five members and send a message to my fans with the song. -- Kim Kyu-jong
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. -- John Lee Hooker
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. -- Henry Van Dyke
I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites. -- Donald Glover
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. -- Becky G
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. -- Idina Menzel
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component. -- Brian Chippendale
"Macarena" is a great song. If music is something you can remember - the worst crime music can do is to be forgettable. -- Fred Armisen
Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET. -- David Lynch
I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that. -- Patty Griffin
I wish I listened through my urethra, because imagine how euphoric and orgasmic music would be. One love song might get you pregnant. -- Jarod Kintz
A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. -- Gian Carlo Menotti
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck. -- Harry Styles
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. -- Erwin Schrodinger
My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it. -- Betty Who
Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele. -- John Hodgman
Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. Itâ??s a drug and makes you feel whatever the songâ??s about. -- Ed Westwick
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy. -- Anthony Liccione
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on. -- Johnny Cash
I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song. -- G-Dragon
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me. -- Shirley MacLaine
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. -- Ben Folds
Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. -- Anna Akhmatova
Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it. -- Roy Harper
Thatâ??s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and theyâ??ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. -- Dave Grohl
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song. -- Dave Sitek
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound. -- Zedd
I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song. -- Debby Ryan
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. -- Roddy Woomble
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video. -- Angel Deradoorian
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage. -- Erin McKeown
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song. -- Brandi Carlile
I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music. -- Michel Martelly

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