Music

(151 votes)   Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep.

John Lennon
1940-1980, An English member of the “Beatles” & songwriter.

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(150 votes)   Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(147 votes)   We have a set list, but we work up a lot more (songs) than we're gonna do. That way we can throw things in and change it around, especially if we're in a place for two days. It's good to keep yourself interested. The last show we did five songs we never rehearsed and that certainly sparked us up.

Tom Petty
American Singer - b 1950 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

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(139 votes)   They're great songwriters in the tradition of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Their songs are beautiful and filled with all sorts of wonderful textures. It's all very emotional and moving. It's the first outside project I've ever produced.

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(134 votes)   There's a commonality there, a common denominator culturally,

Serj Tankian
American Musician - b 1967

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(128 votes)   ...the waiting is the hardest part.

Tom Petty

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(120 votes)   Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen F. Gaskin

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(113 votes)   If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing

Zimbabwe Proverb

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(105 votes)   Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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(103 votes)   I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball

Gerald Early

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(102 votes)   Play the music, not the instrument.

Unknown

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(97 votes)   Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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(96 votes)   Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(95 votes)   Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(93 votes)   If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.

Anonymous

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