Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's… — Robert Earl Keen Copy Share Image
“There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so… — Barbara Lazear Ascher Copy Share Image
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
As pop songs, the early stuff like Electricity' and Enola Gay' were such inspirations to Gwen and I, especially melodically. They inspired… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I… — Agent M Copy Share Image
It's interesting what a new song can do to the other songs. A new song can be the grout of the record,… — LP Copy Share Image
My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want… — Mitch Lucker Copy Share Image
I think there are shades of political songs; some are more subtle and can be more effective for being subtle, for being… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most… — Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Copy Share Image
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I don't think in biology it's very controversial at all. Whether certain behavior is culture or is not culture is argued. I… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart:… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use… — Jess Margera Copy Share Image
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift… — Enya Copy Share Image
At the time I just was like, I can't believe I am on the show, and the first thing I have to… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
In the past, people could use their music because there are these bootlegs floating around that were supposedly public domain but they… — George Ratliff Copy Share Image
“That is why, as Paul Westermeyer observes, “a group who sings together becomes one and remembers its story, and therefore who it… — Brian A. Wren Copy Share Image
People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent.… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
“Funnel The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost-new… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
I have a super deep passion for music, but no one would ever know that because it's not something I show to… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
There's quite a few people who said they couldn't play with two drummers, and I don't understand it. It's no different than… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
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