James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I always have loved music, ever since I was really little. I just loved to sing. I can't really explain it, except… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Vinyl is so outdated nowadays. I can make a track in my hotel room today, and play it for the crowd tomorrow.… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
I got my first drumkit when I was 9 years old, my uncle bought me a little blue drumkit... I remember trying… — G Flip Copy Share Image
How many millions of times have I sung 'Love Changes Everything?' But when I see how it matters to people, it gives… — Michael Ball Copy Share Image
A lot of my albums that Ive done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. Its before you mess… — Liz Callaway Copy Share Image
I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in… — James Blake Copy Share Image
“The Poem About Taking out the Trash In the vast emptiness of darkness, Stars are being born and are burning out; Galaxies… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Everything To Help You Sleep' or 'Claws in Your Back' took a little bit more grappling with the actual poetry… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I do experience something pretty commonly with every song; there's some moment where it clicks into its own life with its own… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Most of the time I don't force records. I'm not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months.… — Jason McCoy Copy Share Image
My mom and grandfather are my first teachers of music. Those experiences and the process of exploring music as a discipline through… — Guillermo E. Brown Copy Share Image
The scene of a crime every night at the show, the fiend of a rhyme on the mic that you know, It's… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that,… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Music is a fundamental part of our civilization, so when it goes to sub zero, we have two choices, right? We do… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
The only reason I do anything is that I just love writing songs. If I write songs, I feel good about it… — Ryan Jarman Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's any formula. I'm not sure I believe in that, to be honest. I don't know if there's… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
My oldest sister was into Diana Ross and the Supremes, and my brother was into Led Zeppelin, and I listened to all… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz.… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
There are so many great records that when you grow older, you're like, 'Oh man, this is the best record ever made.'… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I wrote the song 'Down to Earth' a few years ago, and i was really excited to record it for My World… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
I've always been a singer-songwriter - it started off with me and the guitar, just writing songs, they were very simple. When… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that… — John Legend Copy Share Image
My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
Look. I was a superhero in the '90s. I said so at the time. McCartney, Weller, Townshend, Richards, my first album's better… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
