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First you love the music that your parents love - and then, later in life, you love the songs your kids love. — Elin Hilderbrand

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. — Michael Cerveris

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements. — Judith Hill

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been. — Alicia Keys

I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing. — Alison Krauss

Best of all, she had Park's songs in her head - and in her chest, somehow. — Rainbow Rowell

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones ... " and that's it. — Alex Scally

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. — Tori Amos

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs. — George Stroumboulopoulos

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form. — Russell Smith

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. — Anthony Minghella

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

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it. — Van Morrison

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs. — Brenda Lee

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs. — Roger McGuinn

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

What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just sounds. — Dave Grohl

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. — Ransom Riggs

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. — Theophilus London

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. — Michael Kiwanuka

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life. — Vanessa Hudgens

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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 just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear. — Ricky Skaggs

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended. — Hiroko Sherwin

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! — PJ Harvey

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far? — Bert Murray

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better. — Future

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own. — Dito Montiel

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart. — Bruno Mars

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. — Harry Connick Jr.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. — Rob Sheffield

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. — Colin Farrell

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right. — Florence Welch

Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad. — Jamie Farrell

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite. — Grimes

No matter what walk of life you're from, you can appreciate the music - songs [can] resonate in your soul and your heart. — Common

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head. — Chamillionaire

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. — George Harrison

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. — Aaron Copland

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. — James Taylor

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs. — Ashthon Jones

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray Lamontagne

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it. — Margaret Cho

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. — Billy Idol

I know my priorities ... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies. — Marilou

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11. — Keith Stanfield

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. — Randy Travis

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 get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant. — Dee Dee Ramone

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother. — Ofra Haza

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. — Bill Wyman

The music suddenly became important enough for me to build my own sound studio and start to prepare songs to possibly put out into the world. — Planningtorock

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful. — Yolanda Adams

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs. — Joan Jett

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By ... — Randall Jarrell

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs. — Matisyahu

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters," bemoaned the report. — John Seabrook

Start with your heart, and only good can follow! — Ocean

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector. — Jesse Williams

Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period. — Gad Saad

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them. — Tom Scholz

There's something missing in the music industry today ... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry. — Jimmy Buffett

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for. — Wade MacNeil

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do. — Pixie Lott

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity. — Jann Klose

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ... — Bob Dylan

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it. — Amy Winehouse

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. — Holly Near

I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way. — Luke Bryan

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven. — Angel Olsen

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is. — Amos Lee

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices. — Mike Stoller

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. — Juicy J

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. — Ronnie Gilbert

I've stayed true to my music and I sing heartfelt songs with a message. — Donell Jones

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. — Max Schneider

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls. — Rodney Atkins

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. — Thomas A. Edison

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. — Pierce Brown

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.' — Jacob Artist

I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial. — Courtney Barnett

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from. — Robert Hilburn

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. — Homer

I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music. — Rachel Platten

I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't. — Ann Leckie

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. — Daniel Rossen

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. — Freddie Mercury

To all companies please stop using Xmas songs and inserting your own lyrics. Write your own music. I am boycotting you until you stop. — Bill Engvall

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music. — Tom Odell

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law. — Plato

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music. — Yann Tiersen

And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life. — Shannon L. Alder

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial. — Jack White

Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds. — A J Betts

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs. — Tom Araya

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. — Chip Esten

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive. — Jenny Lewis

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon