Depressed Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
We never do the same set twice... We play for at least two and a half hours, sometimes longer, so there's a… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools… — Peter Erskine Copy Share Image
A man is an island, but the water is deep And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep To… — Joey Tempest Copy Share Image
We [No Doubt] were making music that was the opposite of grunge and what was popular on the radio, and we were… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear some music in my head or I'll go to the piano and mess around and come up with a… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
I always say the wrestlers provide the music and the announcers write the lyrics. You have to feel what you're seeing and… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as… — Grey DeLisle Copy Share Image
I went to so many record labels - name any one - and they all turned me down. For some reason I… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that… — Ralf Hutter Copy Share Image
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music,… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a… — John Oates Copy Share Image
Cold Chisel had their moments, but basically, they were all decent, quiet chaps. I was just a lunatic. Those guys didn't know… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone's reaction, knowing you can do… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It feels good, you know. It feels like you're out there, you know, doin' your own thing, know what I'm sayin'? It's… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
When I think of a song, I think of it as a beast. You chase these beasts around the room and try… — John Waite Copy Share Image
“Show me that you can divide the notes of a song; But first, show me that you can discern Between what can… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't… — George Jones Copy Share Image
There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record.… — Damon Thomas Copy Share Image
I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
“...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm from a musical household and started piano early. A lot has changed, but so much has stayed the same. I have… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend,… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Your brain has a music room, and evolution would not have gone to the trouble of designing that if it didn't have… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
G-Dragonhe is very romantic. I’m his roommate so I see everything. He’s seriously romantic. If he dates someone he makes a song… — Seungri Copy Share Image