I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't… — Lukas Haas Copy Share Image
“There's a song for every feeling, Bee. Every tear, every smile, every heartbreak and every victory. Music ignites the soul and strips… — Julie Johnson Copy Share Image
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They're not as dressed up and the people are very honest… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd feels like to me. I… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green as some… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When a song ends, you could just repeat it every time you like. When the movie ends, you can just wait after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“You’re every song I have ever sung. I’ll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I adore The Maccabees and I think they're completely not given the recognition they deserve at all. 'Wall Of Arms' is one… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
“I want to write a song about the only girl I’ve ever loved. And the chorus will say something like, “I really… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought,… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
The music is not part of this planet in a sense that the spirit of it is about happiness. Most musicians play… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
Hank Williams seemed, like, so total to me, so committed to the lyric. He would actually rip the ends of the words… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player.… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I would not want to live in a universe where good could not ultimately triumph over evil. Or where there was no… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks a woman, “You are smiling so much, there… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young'… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it.… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and… — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing."… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
You've got the words to change a nation But you're biting your tongue You've spent a life time stuck in silence Afraid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main thing that I've learned, artistically, is that if I'm in pain and feeling the budding of anger - if I… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I was a piano performance major at USC. I left before I graduated because I realized at some point I wasn't going… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to… — Juice Newton Copy Share Image
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