And then like a song we’d forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.

Her name was Melody, and she was like a song. A song on mute—because she was mute. Music to my heart.

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

When you write an album and you’re writing about relationships, the stuff that I’ve been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it’s that one percent that always inspires you...

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

I really feel every word to every song a lot more than I have in the past.

I thought I could let you goI thought that you could leave and knowThe time we took would fadeBut I’m colder than the bed where we layYou let go if you like, I’ll hold onSay...

I sang ‘American Pie’ a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It’s a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it...

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there...

If I’m not around I hope you’ll remember me and together we will hold on to our favorite song.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

If my life was a song it would be ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

I don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

Far over the misty mountains coldTo dungeons deep and caverns oldWe must away ere break of dayTo seek the pale enchanted gold.The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,While hammers fell like ringing bellsIn places deep,...

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It’s more like you write what comes to you… You...

A radio in a song in an ice cream cone. Two licks for free, and the third is for sale. My favorite flavor tastes like a commercial, because it’s made with 100% natural advertisement.

When I did ‘1,2,3,4’ on ‘Sesame Street’ they’d rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, ‘Counting to four? That’s where we’re going with this?’ Then they sent...

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and...

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives...

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

Beautiful songs and voice echo in my heart.

I guess I’ve never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they’re great, don’t get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don’t know anything besides, I...

When I’m in the studio, I don’t finish the song and say, ‘That’s going to be a big ringtone.’

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I’m like that old Peggy Lee song, ‘Is That All There Is?’ I want to believe there’s something else going on, but what that something...

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.

The song in me for you is forever musical

All people are musicians” Wit countered. “The question is whether or not they share their songs.

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I’d like to think I did that.

Leaders do not die with their music on their tongues unsung. They provide services that make them unleash their God-given potentials!

The demon at legth fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew – or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word “saucepan” in it several...

I want to write a song based on my own childbirth. Of course, this is all a bit premature.

It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than...

In the half light of morning, in a world between the sheets I swear I saw her angel wing, my vision was completefrom TIGHTROPE – Stone Roses

It’s a lost and lonely kind of feeling,To wake up wearing a disguise.I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don’t know who I am There’s little that I canFully recognize….But I’m taking small...

Hush now, my darlingIt’s all okayNothing can hurt youThe world won’t end today Lay down your headGet some restThis time will passWe’re coming up on the bestJust give it timeIt’s all gonna changeBut remember it...

If my life was a song the title would be ‘Naima’.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Do you think aboutEverything you’ve been throughYou never thought you’d be so depressedAre you wonderingIs it life or deathDo you think that there’s no one like youWe areWe areWe areWe are the onesWe get knocked...

Sometimes I’ll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren’t clicking. And when they do come to me, I’m in the middle of that same verse!

As long as I can be with you, even my digital heart will start to throb. Like a quantum wind, my heart will start to sway.

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear – you’ve got to have music for it. You’ve got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I’m a musician first. I’m not limited by the fretboard.

It doesn’t matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

She always says I’m the best friend that she’s ever had… how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From ‘Laura’ on The Nylon Curtain