When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two. — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female. — Eminem Copy Share Image
I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back. — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
Just an old love song, just the mention of your name, my heart breaks in two again. I guess some things never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five for Fighting Copy Share Image
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Music is where I feel loved. Past, present. Music is where I give love. Why do I continue to enter rooms of… — Robin Russell Gaiser Copy Share Image
We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
If I don't write a song, I only record it when it's played for me for the first time and I connect… — Bea Miller Copy Share Image
You have to understand how lucky I feel. I was on 'Saturday. Night. Live.' I played with the Clash! On what planet… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Its cool when I meet young guys from other bands who say how much an impact Aerosmith has had on them and… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
And for our fans, they're just crazy people anyway. I always look at people in a Green Day shirt, and I think,… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
You shouldn't take a customer who's buying an album, who's happy buying an album, and try to tell them that what they're… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Alex Van Halen... I loved his playing because he had so much energy; he made those songs exciting, along with everything else… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes. — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity. — Jann Klose Copy Share Image
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song. — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. — Thelma Houston Copy Share Image
I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own. — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
You may be a top singer with the best voice, but some1 singing with all his heart may somtimes be better.. — Yudish Copy Share Image
That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
If people say to me, 'So, what were you doing in Dubai in that song?' or they spend ages comparing me to… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
