We sold over 80 million records throughout the world, and there are going to be people who want a new product, or… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves. — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums. — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.” — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
It's all about the music, and I work as hard as I do strictly because of the music. It's not a money… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I'm also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - which is one of his best early… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is… — Miri Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive… — Stephen Foster Copy Share Image
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl. — Estelle Copy Share Image
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. — Pete Fountain Copy Share Image
The first song I sent over was Up All Night. People say that sounds like Angels on a Blink record. Well, no… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Even when I write a song, lots of times I think - I wonder what my dad would think of this song. — SonReal Copy Share Image
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Its not love for music, its a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, its about a way of… — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side. — Tiffany Hwang Copy Share Image
“Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which… — Wu Wei Copy Share Image
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?' — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
I think to really write songs, you need empathy. You have to put yourself in other people's shoes. — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
“If the music is live, then there is a praise inside of you that will bring the Glory cloud realm.” — Renny McLean Copy Share Image
Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound. — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image