I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally. — Hollie Cavanagh Copy Share Image
It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time. — Jack White Copy Share Image
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh. — Fat Joe Copy Share Image
Throughout history, musicians have never counted on intellectual property really getting them rich. — John Popper 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
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
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
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
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, ‘putting some balls into it'-… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our… — Bono Copy Share Image
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't… — Mark Hoppus 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
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
Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't. — Catriona Gray 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
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
I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records. — Shawn Crahan 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The music of 'Damadamm!' will be released by my company, HR Musik, and you will find a completely different Himesh in every… — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
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