My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my… — Chad Channing Copy Share Image
I started playing drums at three, then piano at five, then clarinet. But it wasn't till I picked up a saxophone aged… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. — Bill Kreutzmann Copy Share Image
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
“It’s the space between them where everything important is, where it appears nothing resides. It defines the people, the music.” — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
For me it doesn't matter if my song is promoted, or if it comes at the end credits of a film, it's… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them. — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“Music is my longtime friend. And I could never betray it. I listen to music while I’m writing.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not,… — Carole King Copy Share Image
Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana.… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
However, I have a lot of greed. The types of music I want to show are on this side and on that… — Kim Nam-joon Copy Share Image
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs,… — Fefe Dobson Copy Share Image
I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing. — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong! — GZA Copy Share Image
I think something like rock week, especially when there's a live band and it's very themed, it feels like it's not very… — Guy Sebastian Copy Share Image
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That… — Rose Fyleman Copy Share Image
Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear 'Love' by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment, it will bring me… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from. — Ella Mai Copy Share Image
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it… — Marla Gibbs Copy Share Image
“You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the… — Brom Copy Share Image
That's why I always strive to make timeless, almost a bit cinematic music, because I guess I was looking for an escape… — Laufey Copy Share Image
When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers. — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction. — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
“Play like a child with an air guitar,'' Michael advised. ''A child playing air guitar never plays a 'wrong' note.” — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it. — Skrillex Copy Share Image
“I personally feel that the universe behaves more like a song than an equation because math is about static law and music… — Rick Delmonico Copy Share Image
When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one." — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I like Nirvana, but I couldn't say that I was influenced by them. I like to tell a story. — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
