Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song….

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next..

The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how ea….

Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with….

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you..

I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this day are still my publishers and are….

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better..

When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it..

My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only….

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

We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival….

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effecti….

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song..

They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of….

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like..

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line..

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away..

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitiv….

I'm writing songs with the hope someone can get behind my feeling..

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs..

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with t….