I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another… — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that. — Tom Corson Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days. — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
I wasn't looking at it like, 'I'm singing for AC/DC.' I was looking at it like, 'Y'know, if I can, and if… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wish I could show my singing voice to the world, then would they hear my vain in my melody? — Ashley Rashid Copy Share Image
Clearly, the inhabitants of stable democracies find it hard to appreciate what they have: 'You don't know what you've got 'til it's… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing… — Tones and I Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you… — Simon Le Bon Copy Share Image
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd. — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a… — Feist Copy Share Image
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California. — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture. — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
I just want people to listen to the music and get something from it, whatever it may be. Whether it's a catchy… — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl. — Chris Milk Copy Share Image
Somebody brought up the idea of reissuing 'Tribute To 1' because it was out of print on vinyl. — Jim James Copy Share Image
“She holds up her cup of wine and starts singing a bunch of words not in English. It sounds like a foreign… — Katherine Stevens Copy Share Image
I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects. — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that - an advance. And it's at worse rates than any… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
The sound that you're listening to is from my guitar that's named Lucille. I'm very crazy about Lucille. — BB King Copy Share Image
It takes a happy mood to sing a certain song. Bt a broken heart to understand the lyrics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I, I love you like a love song baby...and I keep hitting re-peat-peat-peat-peat-peat. — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. — Grimes Copy Share Image
