A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song,… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“Whatever we were, we were toxic. A lullaby on a thoroughly scratched record that keeps hiccuping again and again on the line… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I don't have to rope in Armaan for every song just because he is my brother. There have been times when I… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way… — Dylan Baldi Copy Share Image
What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say,… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
The main idea of it was to multiply everything, to have a bigger sound and grow venue size and grow fan base.… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go,… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated,… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time… — Eliza Doolittle Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to bands like the Cure, Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance - these are the bands that… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,'… — Anthony Pilla Copy Share Image
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“SONG OF THE STAR I am nothing but oxygen and hydrogen, A luminous sphere of plasma Held together by helium and gravity,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their… — Moby Copy Share Image
I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it.… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is… — Hephzibah Menuhin Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge… — Nicky Romero Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Here is a piece that falls between the chapters, like a coin between paving stones. It is a slice of silence in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
I know that's how things have gotten, but I appreciate to listen to it the way it was intended to be listened… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
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