I wish you'd listen closer to the songs I play. Because the lyrics are the words I fail to say. — Tumblr Copy Share Image
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor… — Tycho Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing… — Jackson Harris Copy Share Image
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. — Eminem Copy Share Image
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the… — Roland Gift Copy Share Image
Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're… — Beck Copy Share Image
I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It… — Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to… — Michelle Chamuel Copy Share Image
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
People always ask me about 'Spaceman,' and I think that's my signature song, and I still open with it. — Hardwell Copy Share Image
The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.' — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We still here fifteen years later gettin' money, traveling the world, considered the Black Beatles. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950.… — John 5 Copy Share Image
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did… — Carl Palmer Copy Share Image
When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image
Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image