The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want… — Stacey King Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career,… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny… — Natalie Baszile Copy Share Image
It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song. — El-P Copy Share Image
Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime. — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a… — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make… — Future Copy Share Image
I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to… — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot. — Grimes Copy Share Image
The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night"… — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't. — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.' — Jessica Jung Copy Share Image
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how… — James Blake Copy Share Image
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men. — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
