Now are the days, of humblest prayer, When consciences to God lie bare, And mercy most delights to spare. Oh hearken when… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Punk taught you to not wait. It gave me the most beautiful gift at the right time: I've found quantifiable, external success… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
I can't think of a band that has made 19 albums, and hasn't either moved into what I call the manor class,… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I'm really not the biggest metal fan as it is. I'm more of a hard-street-punk kind of kid, but I also loved… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every… — Luis Miguel Copy Share Image
When somebody brings me a record to mix, usually they feel like they can only get it so far with who they… — John Congleton 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
When I first released 'The One And Only' nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, 'Oh, this… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right… — Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know… — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song… — Bon Scott Copy Share Image
There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere… — Bob Benson 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
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
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really… — King Krule 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 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
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
“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
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'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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
