Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record.… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking… — David First Copy Share Image
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
“His performance was also intensely visual, with his volatile movements in front of the piano, and his cries and wild vocal accompaniment… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.'… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
If I sing it, then I wrote it, even if I didnt sing it, write the lyric, make a millie, let another… — Ne-yo Copy Share Image
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
“A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Song Joong-ki was always considerate of his fellow actors and staff members, and Jeon Yeo-been always brought her own energy and charm… — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
People can't work out my music, but neither can I. I just put it together. I don't know how it happens. — Tricky Copy Share Image
When you think about it, we sold about 120 million records, which relates to about £1.2 billion in the U.K. economy. We've… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
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