Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out. — Maxwell Copy Share Image
In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy. — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind -… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it.… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love listening to old records to keep nostalgic feeling; it allows me to not lose the love for hip-hop. — Rakim Copy Share Image
As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
On 'Utopia,' I mix sick beats with ethereal elements while trying to keep the focus very much on the songwriting. If you… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was… — Clairo Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed… — Hozier Copy Share Image
My voice has definitely been my plus point and many compliment me for the power of my vocal chords. — Nizhalgal Ravi Copy Share Image
If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction. — Bill Withers Copy Share Image
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
My music is colorful. The intention for it is to be good for whoever's listening to it, and my style is good… — Amine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle… — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
I love rap lyrics, I love hearing people rap, I love molding a thought or idea into the shape that fits on… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I'm not listening to 'Email My Heart.' I don't know anybody who is listening to 'Email My Heart.' — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so… — Ben Fong-Torres Copy Share Image
I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
My singing voice has sort of an Ethel Merman-type quality: just, like, loud and strong and full. — Beanie Feldstein Copy Share Image
