“Tell me this, pal, why isn't everybody sitting on a fence in the moonlight playing a banjo? That's all I want to… — Vincent Lawrence Copy Share Image
People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any. — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing. — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
My day job is that I write songs for other artists and if I'm not on the road I'm in my studio. — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'll write lyrics first. If I come up with some good lyrics, I'll write them down and try to… — Rob Crow Copy Share Image
“We try to explain how we feel, but there aren’t always the right words or the words we have fail. But with… — Carrie Arcos Copy Share Image
My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that… — Chloe Rose Lattanzi Copy Share Image
“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot… — Suzy Bogguss Copy Share Image
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have. — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the… — Lights Copy Share Image
“NEVER BE AFRAID TO DART AROUND IN PUBLIC, HUMMING THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE THEME SONG. —T-SHIRT” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
These days the whole 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor' and all that stuff has opened up doors for songwriters like me.… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French. — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff,… — Justin Deeley Copy Share Image
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained. — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
