Annabeth’s shoulders ached. The elevator’s easy-listening music didn’t help. If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic,… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
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I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians.… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist]… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded… — Boz Burrell Copy Share Image
I just don't know artistically - because I don't write my own music - I don't know artistically what an album would… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
Beautiful Things' was the first time that I really made proper goals for the song to come out, and now that they… — Benson Boone Copy Share Image
There is something about performing my own music, and other people's music, that gives me pleasure. I think I learn more by… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ...… — Hope Partlow Copy Share Image
I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji,… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I met the guys at HeavyRoc through the drummer in St. Lucia, Nick Brown. He is Ben from The Knocks' cousin, and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some… — Rag'n'Bone Man Copy Share Image
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As a professional cellist, I go to mostly classical concerts because that's the music I play, but I am also always trying… — Jan Vogler Copy Share Image
“He chanted a song of wizardry, of piercing, opening, of treachery, 490 revealing, uncovering, betraying. Then sudden Felagund there swaying sang in… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out.… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
Blur' is about feeling lost, and on a personal level I would be lying if I didn't mention that this song, for… — MO Copy Share Image
(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
What's funny about my voice is, no matter what I sing, I sound like I'm really sad. I don't even mean to… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
With the Neal Morse Band, we're doing progressive music with a harder edge; it's a little more in Dream Theater territory for… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
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