A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that’s slightly different in order to get inspiration.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.

I don’t write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That’s how I write songs. I’ll...

On the videos for ‘1234’ and ‘My Moon My Man’ I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working...

But what if you’re wrong?What if there’s more?What if there’s hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What if...

Repito que… es mentira el cristal con que me miras;es mentira que dude de dudar;es mentira que más de cien mentirasno digan la verdad.

I didn’t really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

I can’t do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams… countless echoes of ‘could have’ and ‘should have’… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung… I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is...

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don’t think they are.

I’ve always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won’t play their hits. That’s really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people,...

Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

Songs are memories… Either u smile or get a tear in your eyes..

I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don’t write topical songs.

The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away...

If I knew what to doI’d do more than write a song for you

I got tired of playing other people’s songs.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from ‘The Phantom of the Opera.’

Start with your heart, and only good can follow!

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

Lose your dream, you lose your mind.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that’s what it feels like to me. Whether that’s what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the...

People who care nothing for their country’s stories and songs,’ he said, ‘are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can’t say tomorrow day.

Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.

And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song,...

You’re an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you’re a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

What good is a song that doesn’t break your heart?

There’s no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn’t relate to the next verse. I don’t think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I’m 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I’m not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don’t?”They don’t make songs when the good lose,” I muttered. “They make war chants against the bad. So there...

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a...

My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she’d be doing...

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that’s kinda how we figure out the feel of how they’re going...

I wasn’t thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let’s put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like...

Heart beats fast Colors and promises How do be brave How can I love when I’m afraid To fall But watching you stand alone All of my doubt Suddenly goes away somehow One step closer...

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren’t, I would have gotten rid of them.