I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
It's such a good feeling today when I can hear them from across the ocean singing this song. That the whole world… — Lucky Dube Copy Share Image
I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage. — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later you’ve heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do. — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not… — Tamaryn Copy Share Image
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only… — Mister Lies Copy Share Image
I've thought about doing a subscription service, where people pre-pay and then we send them 12"s as they're finished, with one song… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.… — Charles McPherson Copy Share Image
It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song.… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to:… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Like Muse and Linkin Park, we are also striving to be the one and only to create a new genre called BABYMETAL.… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
The thing I love about music... you can close your eyes and be transported back to a memory or a dream or… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have… redemption songs; redemption songs. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know? — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
“The Song [of Solomon] captures the ecstatic aspect of love that is the main subject of the whole Bible.” — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
“Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.” — Sean Slade Copy Share Image
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord. — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
One thing that's thematically consistent in 'Sin City' is that all the performances seem to be of the same genre, like we're… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
The first rock record I ever bought was 'Great Balls of Fire.' I was real little, and I went to Atlanta to… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Show me an orchestra that likes its conductor and I'll show you a lousy conductor. — Goddard Lieberson Copy Share Image
Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
Sometimes if I feel the songs are too much, it hurts, but then I open my eyes: people are singing along or… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent. — John Cage Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to babysit us when I was younger, and would always play old-school music. It gets to me. Grandma had… — Virgil Green Copy Share Image
I think 'Shove It' hit at a time when people felt trapped in a dull, day-to-day job and rather than express their… — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
You are most certainly the inspiration for all of today's rock 'n' roll guitarists. Your music is timeless. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image