Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music. — Hiromi Copy Share Image
As an artist, I wear many hats: musician, songwriter, producer, band member of Blues Traveler and solo artist. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Punk rock seems like my childhood, the glorious, very exciting naivete of rock n' roll. Stenguns and guitars seem very idealistic when… — Tony James Copy Share Image
All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during… — Peter Stone Copy Share Image
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music. — Chet Faker Copy Share Image
I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
I think we're definitely playing up to characters. We see ourselves as a pop band. I don't have a pseudonym because I… — Gwenno Copy Share Image
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
A lot of the hardcore fans wanna hear the deep cuts - songs like 'Orion' or maybe like a 'Disposable Heroes' -… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience.… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
“For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul… — Ben Galley Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only… — Bill Conti Copy Share Image
The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it. — Monique Coleman Copy Share Image
Music is just something I find very fun, the way other people find going to the mall is fun - which I… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with Christian artists. We have a Christian… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm… — Bun E. Carlos Copy Share Image
Call me old fashioned, but I love songs that end. As a songwriter, I feel like you put a fade out when… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I feel India thrives on playback singing and Bollywood music. It does not understand the culture of non-film music. — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I genuinely love Oasis, and I also genuinely love Beyonce. My body gets the same pleasure. If you like different types of… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Music is a way for me to put how I'm feeling onto paper. I can't put into words how much that process… — Marvin Bagley III Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker.… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it… — Mike Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard,… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
If there's a common thread running through all the H.O.R.D.E. bands, it's the emphasis on live improvisational music. — John Popper Copy Share Image
“Whoa, you got my head in the clouds Whoa, you got me thinking out loud The more you dream about me the… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. — Alex North Copy Share Image