Is it music? ... This is not the important question. The important question is, is it interesting? — Mark Applebaum Copy Share Image
I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Every time I record a song and I really like it, I like giving my audience something to look forward to -… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
With this shit this song's complete. Move your body super sweet. Always like an ice cream treat — Blood On The Dance Floor Copy Share Image
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
You see further behind you, and you get a chance to see further down the road. I could make a project come… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
'Phase' is a special song to me, and I wanted the video to make you feel like you are on a journey… — Gunna Copy Share Image
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
“She’d looked so beautiful standing there, gazing out to sea. Crimson had once told him a tale about Sirens, magical creatures that… — Jade Parker Copy Share Image
“Ubiquitous listening makes music virtually imperceptible, and any music is welcome. For so long as the semblance of vital activity that a… — Eldritch Priest Copy Share Image
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You. — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the… — John Oates Copy Share Image
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations. — Deana Carter Copy Share Image
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
