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
When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My… — Alex Goot 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
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
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
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human… — Hozier 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
I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as… — Cyrus Chestnut Copy Share Image
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
If you repeat what you did in the last tour, the likelihood is it's not gonna be successful twice. People are nostalgic… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
Yeah, uh, no, I play the cello. I played it, when, a lot when I was younger and it's one of those… — Charlotte Hope Copy Share Image
At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“It had been years since Melora listened to a symphony. She had been struck by how natural and organic the music was.… — Marie Zhuikov Copy Share Image
'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo.… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something.… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The only thing I think about is doing something where I'm the only person making all the decisions - I think that… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
My parents bought this baby grand piano, which was in my living room, that I owe a lot to. I would just… — Borns Copy Share Image
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
“I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story.… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something,… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar;… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
My favorite song of ours has to be 'Feel Special.' It was a little different than our bright songs that talk about… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
