I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took… — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips Copy Share Image
“I keep a band of music in my ante-room," he said once to her. "It has orders to play without stopping; it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
My first Gibson was a '91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it - it's still amazing-sounding - but it… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my… — Becky Lynch Copy Share Image
“...one song, one note that heals the guilty chaos of our days, making sense of our loneliness, our perjured feelings, our sickness… — Spencer Gordon Copy Share Image
I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really… — Ray J Copy Share Image
Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I feel everything. I feel everything, so when you feel, you know you have emotions and everything. Music is a feeling. Music… — Lil B Copy Share Image
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
“Rock and roll is simply an attitude. You con't have to play the greatest guitar.” — Johnny Thunders Copy Share Image
I used to have a Fender Hot Rod and I actually really like that, purely because I think the clean sound and… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Whenever you find the key to happiness. Life has a piano waiting on you to play. — Clive Jaars Copy Share Image
The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison. — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it. — MC Lars Copy Share Image
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about,… — Nas Copy Share Image