I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point.… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I took music theory for one year in high school and flunked all but one six-week period. That's because I couldn't read… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and… — Prefuse 73 Copy Share Image
“The Beatles insisted he let it be, let it be. Stephen ejected the tape from his eight-track and threw it on the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits… — John Davy Copy Share Image
I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song…… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Although you'll seldom hear him do it, my dad sings really well. When I was a kid, we'd go hunting, and the… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys… — Lin Brehmer Copy Share Image
When you're a musician, a lot of time people help you out; they take pity on you. Family members will kind of… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the violin repertoire is that it's small enough that you can plan on learning everything at some point… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
“Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel the need gotta be so deep words can't answer… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I love to write and have the basic foundation of what the song's all about. Then once the drums are done it's… — Kirk Windstein Copy Share Image
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
The new material includes a Latin-flavoured song, some electric rock songs, and a ballad. Something strikes me, and I follow that. I'm… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
I can write a song that I feel so good about that. 'A hundred percent, this is money. This is an absolute… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
'Life Changes' is a song that we feel really connects to the spirit of our band and our fans. It's got that… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has.… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
My voice doesn't sound like anyone else's. I wanted to sound like my favorite singers when I was young because when you're… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony,… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
To create an album of love, I really had - I thought it was going to be easy, because I've always written… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records.… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
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