Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play. — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with… — Matt Squire Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“of the Led Zep rarities 145 words Led Zeppelin (1969) 'Heartbreaker' (Live). Few meaningful alternative takes exist for the band's quickly assembled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole,… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I call it "being interrupted by success." We had done The Soft Bulletin, which came out in 1999, and we knew we… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
The last record was good but lyrically it wasn't focused - I was writing a lot of the lyrics and I am… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I love Erykah Badu. Every time I listen to her music, I'm, like, laying out all the instruments in the song, like,… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.” — Kahlil Gibrán Copy Share Image
It's true that a song or an entertainer isn't really a hit unless he's a hit in America as well as Europe. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in… — Enya Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs. — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence. — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song,… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image