Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock.… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going… — David Grisman Copy Share Image
When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
“Some people have used this song as evidence that I worship the devil, which is another chapter for the big book of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've always had a tendency to keep an emergency exit in a song. I can't remember ever writing a song that is… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Toplines usually suck. I'll send a song to a band or artist whose entire body of work I love and I'll ask… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
When I do a song, it is more or less for the radio because I've got to do it - that's what… — Cam'ron Copy Share Image
I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes while performing time itself seems to stop when you hit your notes just right. The music glides between the pores of… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“If life is a song, and God is the divine conductor, I must consider these trials and troubles as the harmony of… — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
“I am not saying that you have to be a jazz fan to be a Mod. The Mod scene incorporates a wide… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour… — Sammy Cahn Copy Share Image
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There'll be amazing moments and there'll be less amazing moments, but you've got to sort of keep going forward, and remember why… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
But even if you're not a 'Scrubs' follower you'll still have a good time, because all the songs are recognizable and presented… — Sam Lloyd Copy Share Image
I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Don't tell anyone I'm a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don't tell 'em I can sing, or they'd… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
