We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
You're listening to [the songs on Random Access Memories] and they're future classics. They've brought the sound of something that's been lost… — Todd Edwards Copy Share Image
Music's in my soul. Everyday and every night I think of how thankful I am to have music in my life. — Tricia Cuffee Copy Share Image
Music moves the deepest emotions, stirs buried memories, makes one forget yet creates new feelings and sometimes cures illness too. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“The music business is like any other business, y’know? When sales are going well, everything’s hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong,… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
People used to say, "Clapton is God." That was a phrase that people attributed to him, and he was a guitar hero… — Michael Angelo Batio Copy Share Image
Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. — Grant-Lee Phillips Copy Share Image
New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
You need to have your favourite song. The one that reminds you how it all began. Make sure she never forgets it. — James Merrow Copy Share Image
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia,… — Gerry Beckley Copy Share Image
Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling. — India Arie Copy Share Image
There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
“About Soul Punk: There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences. — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
I always thought I would release an album and my songs would play on the radio. Now, the dream has come true. — Rahul Vaidya Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
“Would you sing for me ?" "I don't think that's a good idea." "Likely not. But it does not change the desire.” — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
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