Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.