One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I always say a song is like a ship. Once it has been made, you let it sail. Let the waves take… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me. — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you? — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
I am who I am. I can't do anything that doesn't have nuances of all the music I've done in the past. — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
“Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song.… — Stephen Dewaele Copy Share Image
Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
The most beautiful music in the world is your own heartbeat. It gives u an assurance that youll survive Even when the… — Alicia Copy Share Image
I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She's white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae,… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better! — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
For me, '52nd Street' is quintessential Billy Joel. I bought that record as a kid and listened to it so much. — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a… — Bucky Pope Copy Share Image
Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
The song 'Leroy and Lanisha' on my album 'The Epic' is really my homage to 'Linus and Lucy.' — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. — King Krule Copy Share Image
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I remember me and my mate Neil, age 15, screaming the words to a Nirvana song in his bedroom. Let's just say,… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song. — Chris Lane Copy Share Image
I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
“The Beatles thought love was the best answer. I think it’s an even better question.” — Morgan Clamp Copy Share Image
I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. — Ernie Isley Copy Share Image
I will go down on my deathbed telling my kids to find songs like 'Don't Take the Girl.' — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
