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.
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
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"
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"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu