“You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I used to play guitar years ago. It brought me a lot of pleasure when I was a teenager growing up and… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
You're like brothers in a band like that. Sometimes we got in arguments, but it was like a marriage, we all loved… — Randy Meisner Copy Share Image
You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum,… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
The Weezer 'Blue' Album is a classic. I think My Morning Jacket's 'Circuital' is a great album to have. Any Led Zeppelin… — Christopher Mintz-Plasse Copy Share Image
Go to bed dream of you thats what I'm doin these day I wake up and tear drops fall down like rain… — Ali Fletter Copy Share Image
I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
There's never been anything else in my life that inspired me at all. It's crazy, but I've always loved music and I've… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
“Nothing the Rolling Stones ever did was more important than the respect they showed to the music that had inspired them.” — Stephen Davis Copy Share Image
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Music for me is this thing that's sort of saved my life over the course of my whole life, whether it be… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
“Would you sing for me ?" "I don't think that's a good idea." "Likely not. But it does not change the desire.” — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination. — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I always thought I would release an album and my songs would play on the radio. Now, the dream has come true. — Rahul Vaidya Copy Share Image
Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's… — Gruff Rhys Copy Share Image
There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences. — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band… — Herbert Copy Share Image
“About Soul Punk: There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling. — India Arie Copy Share Image
