I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I've done songs with legends like De La Soul with Pete Rock. I've done songs with B.O.B. I've done songs with Big… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are -… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days. — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
If it is a good song, it is a good song. The Beatles were pop, the beach boys were pop and it's… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems. — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I wish you would pay more attention to my favourite songs, because the lyrics they sing are the words I'm too… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main pedal is the Ibanez Analog Delay, the AD9 or the AD80, whichever one it is. That's my go-to pedal for… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz… — Ric Sanders Copy Share Image
“When we sing, I am one of many, and the individual me evaporates. I am one of 23 university choir members. Not… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
“From the moment the five of us leaned into our first song, we could all hear and feel that the fit was… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands. — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“If Rock N Roll really is devil music, then Hell just became more appealing.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's. — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
YEAH! It's really hard to write heart broken songs when you're happily married — Lights Copy Share Image