I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a… — Luther Vandross Copy Share Image
I get to work a lot of times in nightclubs and large theaters, so I wanted to make music that is fun… — Alaska Copy Share Image
When me and Eric did songs back in the day, we didn't go and sit down in front of no A&R. We… — Rakim Copy Share Image
After I sing a song, I keep a track of it just for a short time. Just the first few reactions. After… — KK Copy Share Image
In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
As far as the persona, I'm true to myself. Not because I'm arrogant, but I'm true to myself because I believe that… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
You are hearing this song, and you're 16, and it's a song about love, or a girl. And then maybe there's a… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Blues pioneer and Mississippi native Charley Patton recorded his classic “Pea Vine Blues” in 1929 for Paramount Records. The song, played with… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage,… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of… — Drake Copy Share Image
A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first… — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that… — Brian Degraw Copy Share Image
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
There were lots of songs that were on 'It Still Moves' that I had written, and we had played - rehearsed, but… — Jim James Copy Share Image
The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service… — Eddy Cue Copy Share Image
When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
I remember hearing people like Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, and Elvis. My parents were big fans of them, and they were the… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
When I was 10 I went to the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, which is this idyllic Harry Potter-esque music boarding school in… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There's no way anyone's going to understand my own personal experiences, where the songs came from, because they're mine. But I was… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Humming and singing my new song, I led them up and down the stairs, pressing my fingers against the wall like I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line,… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
