#song

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#extraordinary #genius #instrumentation #quite #really

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. ↗

— Sammy Cahn

#america #greatest #popular #song

That's what my life is, writing songs. ↗

— John Cale

#my life #songs #writing

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#anywhere #authentic #except #feel #felt

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music. ↗

— George Dardess

#music #praise #qu-ran #religion #song

from private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#trio-of-love-songs #love

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. ↗

— Dar Williams

#february #form #human #letting #made

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ↗

— Sai Baba

#life #must #pass #song #whole

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music. ↗