When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I always wanted to have a villain song for Hades in 'Hercules,' but I couldn't figure out how we would have Hades… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.” — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it.… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
'Firepower' is the eighteenth full-length studio album for Judas Priest. That's a lot of metal songs over the decades, and the writing… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul. — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation. — Mod Sun Copy Share Image
When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I'm your National Anthem. God, you're so handsome. Take me to the Hamptons. Bugatti Veyron. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life,… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
My father is my best friend. Just growing up with him inspired me to appreciate music that much more because he appreciates… — Musiq Soulchild Copy Share Image
Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no… — Lari White Copy Share Image
We're an American band. We liked the Grammys, we liked the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We weren't a political band,… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I love doing clean singing, which is one of the main things that drives me back to Kamelot all the time. — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“you can't listen to any song twice , even if you play that song , for hundred times !” — Ali Alkaady Copy Share Image
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Over 80 million records sold and I ain't got to do it with ten or eleven year olds. — Dr Dre Copy Share Image
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
