“Say what you want to say, and let the words fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you be brave!” — Sara Barellies Brave Copy Share Image
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men. — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together. — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how… — James Blake Copy Share Image
Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.” — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I love to get music sent as an MP3 attachment because that way I can preview the song in my e-mail, without… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
You have to think, when I was growing up Internet was a thing but no one had it. We didn't have it… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's… — Dom Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
“-I'll play you a song. Blake flexed his fingers and concentrated harder on the cardboard, moving his hands methodically over it's surface.… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it. — Brett Eldredge Copy Share Image
It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something. — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The new age disc jockeys and program directors have accepted me as a new age artist, along with Shadowfax and the rest,… — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
“The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Occasionally and all-too-infrequently a song comes along that jolts you and you prick up your ears. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
There are reasons that bands and musicians make demos and outtakes - because they are not good enough to make the record.… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station. — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
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