When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding. — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't.… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
If you listen to Drake's first single... he copied my whole bar word for word and my cadence and my flow from… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
And it's flights to LA, trips to Paris They could talk but we couldn't care less, girl woah, Let you shop in… — Katie Grabil Copy Share Image
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
“God is boundless, and so is never a boundary: God's music possesses the richness of every transition, interval, measure, variation - all… — David Hart Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy… — Christian McBride Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I'm very careful about each lyric now. It can't just be a throwaway. And if it is, then we scrap it. — Lola Young Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what… — Etta James Copy Share Image
It's not common for a group to make a comeback after the members leave for a different agency. — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee. — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world?… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Be you, but be the you that brings a smile to ones face and a song into ones heart.Â¥ — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and their own way: and sometimes they are… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My mother always said I was singing before I was speaking. I came to this world to sing, and I feel very… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I have a duty to keep my heart on my sleeve because no one else will tell that story. — Griff Copy Share Image
To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing. — James Blunt Copy Share Image
People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God. — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
To love another person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it back to them when they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at… — Sophie Ellis-Bextor Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong was about playing with soul and emotion, not about showing how technically brilliant he was. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for… — Prince Copy Share Image
It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
My favorite song is 'No Air,' a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don't want to sound weird or anything, but… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
