Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore