Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin',… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
When I drive to work, I listen to thuggish rap at a very loud volume, even though the lyrics are degrading to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be… — Kevin McKidd Copy Share Image
The most important thing for the conductor is that he or she listens. Her listening will make things sound a certain way.… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I remember I asked my mom for a ukulele, and she said no because she thought I would never play it. So… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and… — Logic Copy Share Image
What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
There are complaints on so many lips, there are many distances from the life.. Why do the dreams dampen in eyes, when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in… — Daniel Rossen Copy Share Image
Turn up the music, cause this song just came on. Turn up the music, if they try to turn us down. Turn… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is… — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
The songs of 'Border' and 'Refugee' were from my heart. Everything that is patriotic comes from the heart. If these songs come… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and… — Bono Copy Share Image
Powerful how some songs bring to the mind,vivid pictures of wonderful people in our lives. The pictures so clear that we could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the characters is admired by someone who admires no one else in life because he "gets this song in life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes something opens up in your brain as I'm writing, thinking about the song, and it's like a whirlwind. It all comes… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
When you do a different city every night, it's easy to repeat things. There are songs you want to play for people… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling. Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians,… — Kenny Werner Copy Share Image
What are these voices outside love's open door Make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more? I'm learning to… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
Growing up on Franklin Road in Nashville, I had everyone from Johnny Cash to Fats Domino swinging by my house to talk… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image