If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a… — Irwin Thomas Copy Share Image
But the first time I had to stand up and sing with them was when we did the pre-record for the movie… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I see four young kids in a band, I think, That looks really fun, no matter how shitty they are. You… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
One of the best records I’ve ever heard. Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more… — Todd Agnew Copy Share Image
“Chords reel and the mind reels, and for all I know The minds of the Gods reel as well -- "For if… — Tobeimean Peter Copy Share Image
I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music… — Zedd Copy Share Image
I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
We were a small group of weirdos and baby punks and gays and free spirits who had to use our imaginations a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
I used to have to come home and write and then record work tapes of those new songs. So now I can… — Granger Smith Copy Share Image
Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
“There is nothing hard for people to comprehend in Kalpop. Kalpop is music and the rhythm of the world. Music has words.… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I… — Mena Grabowski Trott Copy Share Image
“What is the song, the pop song? Is it a conduit to give out the feeling in a compact form, a short… — Brendan Fowler Copy Share Image
I had the lyric 'Chip Don't Go' and a few words, and my wife came in and said that it sounded like… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
There's a lot of songs and songwriters out there - you have to make something stand out to pitch songs. Sometimes you… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits.… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much… — Bobby Hatfield Copy Share Image
