I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or so, I made a conscious decision to try and sing with a big voice. Everybody I listened… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
I don't think I would participate in 'Eurovision,' but I would love to write a song for it. But it would have… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that… — Deadmau5 Copy Share Image
I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals,… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes… — Jerry Hunt Copy Share Image
It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
This is going to sound really corny, but it's the way I feel: Musicians have been around for a really long time.… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it,… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Whatever I do today is the whole continuum of my experience. Like John Dewey said in his book ‘Art as Experience,’ you… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He… — Brom Copy Share Image
Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs… — Karl Wolf Copy Share Image
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I guess it was this over-riding feeling I wanted people to get from the album - a kind of positivity. On the… — Sarah Blasko Copy Share Image
“Let my heiress have full rights, Live in my house, sing songs that I composed. Yet how slowly my strength ebbs, How… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up… — Adam Hicks Copy Share Image
Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic,… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
A more detailed world is a more complicated and complex one, and therefore a more empathetic one. I feel Gord's Downie lyrics… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
Success is good, but I have seen the other side. I don't think much about it. I just work towards making a… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
