It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?'… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk… — Tom Silverman Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that… — Barry Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My favorite song on the Road to Ruin demo was 'I Wanna Be Sedated.' It was catchy and huge even in stripped-down… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I've done a bunch of collaborations where it goes well and you finish it, but then you're kind of like, "I just… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't… — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you,… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only… — Erik Hassle Copy Share Image
Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I have no problem with people illegally downloading stuff. I'm not going to drive hard into 'You should buy my stuff,' because… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Being in a boy ban,d you're not allowed to be good at anything. You're not allowed to be talented. You're not really… — Ronan Keating Copy Share Image
Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
“...bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because… — Antony John Copy Share Image
... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Man, you'd be surprised how much I'm learning - not only about myself, but about the musicians who came before me. You… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for… — Gza Copy Share Image
When the second album came out, everybody gravitated immediately to the three and a half minute rock tunes and ignored the ballads.… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
I want to entertain my audience. I know when then come and see me play, if I don't do 'Swing Town,' 'Jet… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
Everything has to be intrinsic plot-wise in the same way, to use the Linda Williams analogy but to move it on a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
Pretty much all the programming on our CDs is done by me personally, so I've kind of been able to have complete… — Tyler Joseph Copy Share Image
Benny and Bjorn, I suppose, already had an idea of which one was going to sing the lead. I mean, they knew… — Anni-Frid Lyngstad Copy Share Image
I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs,… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't… — Jarryd James Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of The Stooges when I was writing "Oscillate," imagining our hero moving through his days naturally embodying… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you might get inspired by something, write about it, then later that lyrics sounds better on another beat. That's happened a… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
