We were fans of Green Day and Nirvana or whatever, but the bands we really loved were Chicago bands that didn't really… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
I listen to everything and find parts about a song in the lyrics/melody/chords/production that I like and can be inspired by when… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together. — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake… — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. — Elton John Copy Share Image
The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
Music is still the one thing that ties people together. People can come together from all different religions, walks of life, colours,… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Life Is A Song We Play Each Day. For Every Mistake We Make, The Song Goes Out Of Tune. But Keep On… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you… — Mackenzie Astin Copy Share Image
'In the Pines' is a very old song dating back to slavery. Lead Belly made it popular. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
It's the song in your heart that wants you to help make yourself a better person, and to help other people do… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
The bottom line is what we record is what we use. Once we feel we've got a good album, we stop at… — Malcolm Young Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective. — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. — Halsey Copy Share Image
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If the snares are tight and the engineer was good and the rhymes are fly then it's good. — Rev. Run Copy Share Image
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