I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
Just dwelling on the past, I think it's really important for me to surround myself with positive people and just work really… — Lloyd Copy Share Image
I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded,… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
When you hear this chorus Do you miss the way the world was spinning for us? Do you hurt the way that… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting ... the one thing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
There are songs that can really make you sad and cry when you hear them. But it's actually not the song that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I've been through and what I've accepted. And releasing it has made me… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with my music, I'm trying to make songs that will last a lifetime and… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
You can talk about all the great guitarists you want Jimi Hendrix or whoever but as far as I'm concerned, Duane Allman… — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
“ It’s a slow sultry song. She opens her mouth and what comes out can only be described as dripping with sex.… — K. Larsen Copy Share Image
My idea was that if I loved to sing, I would just do it anywhere I could, and always go out and… — Lauren Hart Copy Share Image
“John Berryman: The Song of the Tortured Girl After a little I could not have told - But no one asked me… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
There is a very palpable difference for me between some of my earlier songs and where my later work has gone. If… — Mirah Copy Share Image
At first, I didn't think playing guitar was the right thing for me to do. But after seeing Jimi Hendrix on television… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I've always been good about interfacing with machines. But that never seemed like a gateway to being able to make music. I… — Tycho Copy Share Image
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but… — Kenny G Copy Share Image