The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I change guitars as they come and go. I have one I played for almost a decade, but I've put it away.… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
“He breathed a deep ahh and said, “Where did you learn to do that?” “Los Angeles High School of Performing Arts,” I… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
Tower Records was a place to meet your friends, your co-workers or a place to meet new friends who shared a common… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more… — Jim James Copy Share Image
We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
Who are you? Are in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself, where you can… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as… — RZA Copy Share Image
I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power,… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically,… — Roscoe Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a real Otis Redding fan, and I just think he sounds so good. He sounds like he's always at the end… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Some songs they mean a lot to people, like you mean to me. When you listen to your favourite song it takes… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
I definitely get my artistry and my vocal talent from my mother and mother's side. She sang in a jazz trio band… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it.… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you… — Maurice Gibb Copy Share Image
That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence.… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I never let anyone tell me anything growing up and I knew I wanted to be a singer. I would say to… — Leigh-Anne Pinnock Copy Share Image
“I found I could listen without envy to Letty's singing, and afterwards when the applause came, I did not mind that Mrs… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
If you take your last album & try to copy it, then thats sure to hell the way to stagnation. And that… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
There was a piano in my house, and my brother had taken lessons when I was a kid. I don't remember this,… — Amber Rubarth Copy Share Image
You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song.… — Richard Patrick Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of artists that are very traditional. I think someone can be a fan of someone like… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
