Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the morality of songwriting, and the line in the sand I've arrived at is that sharing your… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man.… — Jaco Pastorius Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
“Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink… — Ski Mask the Slump God Copy Share Image
I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
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In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important… — Richard Meale Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure… — Vaughn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Each piano is unique. Each feels different beneath your hand and yields a new geography of sound. Each room or hall accepts… — A. Manette Ansay Copy Share Image
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
I realised the thing I was best at in music was toplining - coming up with melodies, lyrics, hooks, arrangements, structure; the… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
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