Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Corey Smith

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

Corey Smith

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

Corey Smith

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Corey Smith

When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially dealing with the same things.

Corey Smith

I just try to stay honest with myself and in doing that I feel like the songs are going to resonate.

Corey Smith

I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.

Corey Smith

The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.

Corey Haim

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.

Corey Taylor

When you're looking for a house, you're not looking for a house that's perfect. You're looking for that house to have character. And I think it's those little bits of humanity they come from the music. That's what the music brings out when you have that, it brings out the character of a song. You go back and listen to 30, 40 years of music, and all the great, great songs that we've had in our lives, they all have that character. They have that human nudge, they all have that human relation. You can relate to it.