I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Alan Watts, were he alive today, would nod knowingly when told of that experiment. Watts once said, “Only bad music… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I would love to sit down and do only the ukulele with a very small crowd. I would also like to sing… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was… — Mario Cantone Copy Share Image
It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit… — Alison Krauss Copy Share Image
I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
I listen to many forms of music. And I come from a very particular style and tradition of music, which has certain… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“Shoats had pushed his chair back from the table to allow himself room for the guitar, between the table edge and his… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more… — Marissa Nadler Copy Share Image
I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Who were the biggest acts in the world in 1987? Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I shamelessly pandered to surfers and skateboarders,… — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
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Even if you have one band that's your favorite in the whole world, don't listen to only that band. There's a lot… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced some radio broadcasts with the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — BAH,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every song that is a Hopsin song, I 100 percent made it. Nobody helped me. There was no producer to say, 'Hey,… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
The only thing as a kid that really mattered to me was that I wouldn't quit. When I say 'quit,' I mean… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I feel like people are starting to come around and embrace rock. Because I guess they're getting sick of the stale sounds… — Jason Reece Copy Share Image
I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If I look back at the songs I was writing when I was effectively a child, there's a big contrast, so I've… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“That's how we all use music. We put in on when we need it, and it's extremely important in our lives. You… — Joe Satriani, Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir Copy Share Image
All the music weve been releasing, its a lot this past year. So were busier working on the music, recording it than… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the… — Eric Bibb Copy Share Image
When I brought 'El Topo' to New York, no one understood the picture. But John Lennon understood. John and Yoko Ono, they… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“The Stones are not the world's greatest band. Not even the world's second greatest band. What they are is the world's most… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part… — David Amram Copy Share Image
This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving… — Adele Copy Share Image
I actually grew up on rock music; that's what was played around my house. I listened to Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
You would think that there's a huge difference between a Kenny Chesney or Toby Keith fan, as opposed to a Slayer fan.… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
You gonna hear a lot of loving songs in there, you gonna hear betrayal songs, you gonna hear action that takes place… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
My biggest influence was actually my mother's left hand. Because, before I went to bass, I was playing guitar. And when she… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
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