No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or… — Steven Page Copy Share Image
I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers?… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I really do want to reiterate how grateful I am for everyone who's ever said a nice word about my music. But… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. For a lot of us, it's the one that has the song, 'Spider-Man, Spider-Man,… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Song of myself Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song.… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age… — Michael Hutchence Copy Share Image
“What hope is here for modern rhyme To him, who turns a musing eye On songs, and deeds, and lives, that lie… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really… — Adam Schlesinger Copy Share Image
I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well,… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
