When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
When we make demos of our songs, we do our demos in English - the whole song's in English. — Jennie Copy Share Image
For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music. — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
You can do a lot worse than spend an hour a week singing. We should prescribe choirs on the NHS for anxiety… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing. — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
“I like to listen to music that makes me feel a certain way—either it reminds me of something important that happened or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Linguistic and musical sound systems illustrate a common theme in the study of music-language relations. On the surface, the two domains are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A talented pianist, he toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a professional musician. Unsure, he sought advice and was… — Manjit Kumar Copy Share Image
When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
A love of mine With a song and a whine You're harsh and divine Like truths and a lie But the tale… — Rohan Rathore Copy Share Image
My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I'm very particular about everything. That goes along with the artwork, and how it's laid out, and every lyric. So it's pretty… — BØRNS Copy Share Image
Sometimes being a little out of control makes the best music and allows others to blossom as well. — Janine and The Mixtape Copy Share Image
Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's… — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
“The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
[Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time,… — Beck Copy Share Image
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I play my music the same way because people expect it to sound exactly the way it does on the radio. — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
Lets Start a war! Isnt it it obvious what were fighting for,Fighting for all those who feel alone, Giving them shelter by… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
“But the Beatles turned out to be one of the things you couldn’t avoid, like alcohol, or death.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“If you listen to my words you'll understand how I really feel inside...I can't express my feelings to you, but I can… — Matthew Trevitz Copy Share Image
I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician.… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Sound filled the room, a crystal melody that could lift any human heart and turn away any devil. It was "Here I… — David Wong Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production. — Ryan Cabrera Copy Share Image
I think I'm always surprised at how much the musicians I meet put weight on things that aren't music. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
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