You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
When the lyrics to a song relate so much to you, you feel like that person wrote it for your soul. — Evangeline Willis Copy Share Image
It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it. — Don Pullen Copy Share Image
There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really intimate and personal;… — Flume Copy Share Image
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“The suffering or the bad memories are as important as the good memories, and the good experiences. If you sort of, can… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
There are still songs that I'm writing. I like to write. I like to take a long time to do my songs,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Take a guy like Phil Collins, for instance. He's known as a pop-rock artist, but some of his music is so amazingly… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
As a musician, I realize I am not only responsible for the music that I put out, but also for my actions… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
I rap, and I work with this dude named Chemist, who lives in Virginia. He's my go-to producer and does a lot… — Stephen Glover Copy Share Image
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ...… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do. — Matt Wertz Copy Share Image
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and… — Paul Wardingham Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want… — Steve Landes Copy Share Image
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
