She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“The first thing on your to do list every weekend should always be to turn up the fucking music.” — Lou Brutus Copy Share Image
I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand. — Emma Anderson Copy Share Image
The music was soft and we just looked kind of like your average two people walking down the street. So really the… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock &… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working.… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My mum was a big fan of E.L.O. and Elvis Costello. She used to play that, consistently, all the time when we… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren't polite. They were against the grain. And that's what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive... like… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. — Mark White Copy Share Image
I obviously want a safe world for everybody if we're getting really deep, but my safe and happy place is always going… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Even if I know that really it's not a great song, even if it's a naff song but I have a good… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold; where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever. — Finneas Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself. — Dexter Holland Copy Share Image