A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them. — Steven Price Copy Share Image
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over. — Mya Copy Share Image
My mom and sisters liked to sing and we would jam at home very often. I would also jam a lot in… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song. — MO Copy Share Image
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music. — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives. — Himesh Patel Copy Share Image
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio.… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, 'Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?' They were like, 'No.… — Darci Lynne Farmer Copy Share Image
In Norway, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is very supportive of each other. If there is anyone new, or a new song… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band. — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal. — Kim Petras Copy Share Image
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
When I write the songs, I don't dictate how people should interpret them. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image