Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
“Many today insist that music is amoral, that there is nothing innately good or bad about music itself. They say it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
Back in the day it was like, I got a great record from a great producer and writer and it's a hit… — Omarion Copy Share Image
In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I recognize that I'm in a band, and part of being in a band is doing interviews, and I do have a… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it's almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I want somebody else to say, 'Man, that 'Back 2 Life' album got me through. There were songs that really empowered me… — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be reminded where you were at the time, and songs are a good vehicle for that. It's so… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
“Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building… — Gary Catona Copy Share Image
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring.… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“Why do you weep, child? We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
In my songs I make it a point that the original singers get the credit and royalty. Like with 'Jehda Nasha,' we… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
The label's going great, because we're not idiots. We're not trying to sue everyone that downloads everything. We try to give the… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
When I'm outside gardening, it can be so inspiring. I think of words and melodies. It's peaceful. Every singer-songwriter should find something… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
First and foremost: I'm a metal fan. I'm a musician, an artist, but I'm a complete fan and I've never grown out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
