I'm at a payphone trying to call home All of my change I spent on you Where have the times gone, baby… — Maroon 5 Featuring Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
We used to have a nanny who was obsessed with Take That. She was in love with Mark Owen and her room… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
Kerrang asked us to do a heavy metal tribute to one of our favorite heavy metal bands. We had already been jamming… — Johnny Christ Copy Share Image
I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody… — Bronson Arroyo Copy Share Image
I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right… — Brett Eldredge Copy Share Image
When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was… — Jamie Woon Copy Share Image
I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean,… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I hope my music can help many nations all over the world see that the true things come out of the earth,… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God...I figure all any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Girl, I know I don't know you. But your pretty little eyes so blue, Are pulling me in like the moon on… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make… — James Bay Copy Share Image
You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
“Beat, beat, pause. Beat, beat, pause. It’s absolutely beautiful. The way it sounds is beautiful. The way it cares is beautiful. The… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The beautiful thing is, music can be like a time machine. One song- the lyrics, the melody, the mood- can take you… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
The writing process for us is different with every song. Sometimes they come from our lives, or someone else we know may… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and… — Borns Copy Share Image
My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song. When I've gone through something really hard in my life, sometimes it's other people's music. Other times… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been… — Evan Mandery Copy Share Image
I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me,… — Lauv Copy Share Image
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that.… — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
It's better to find a composition through an instrument and to play it and record it because you have something. It's a… — Nicolas Godin Copy Share Image
“Finally, we often hear some pitches or notes as being more important (or “central”) than others. These pitches tend to serve as… — Dmitri Tymoczko Copy Share Image