Music is about connecting with people on a personal level and doing that one set of ears at a time. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure how people were going to take to the stories I was telling and the things I wanted to sing… — Jackson Harris Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was truly trying to take what I felt when I was in a field or in an outdoor… — Tycho Copy Share Image
When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to… — Pia Toscano Copy Share Image
I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. — Eminem Copy Share Image
I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music. — Jake Shears Copy Share Image
The Sex Pistols had it all - they had the snarl, they had the I-don't-give-a-crap attitude - plus, they could play. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
People always ask me about 'Spaceman,' and I think that's my signature song, and I still open with it. — Hardwell Copy Share Image
I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.' — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek Copy Share Image
I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950.… — John 5 Copy Share Image
We still here fifteen years later gettin' money, traveling the world, considered the Black Beatles. — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record. — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When I put out the records, when I make a distribution deal, those distributors tell me who they sell it to and… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did… — Carl Palmer Copy Share Image
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
When I'm by myself and get some quiet - when the kids are doing something else - I spend time playing piano. — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image