Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I… — Terry Kath Copy Share Image
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant… — Caleb Followill Copy Share Image
That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought… — Sia Copy Share Image
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
“The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say… — Lauren Hart Copy Share Image
For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety.… — Marcel Tabuteau Copy Share Image
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like… — Sia Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I had a melody and a rhythm and chords, but nothing to talk about. I remember reading about how the decline of… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Newfound Glory. I didn't… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
“The entire incident might have been avoided had Willis more carefully selected the tracks in his blaring music playlist. “Sometimes it’s Diana… — Brian Abrams Copy Share Image
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I… — John Popper Copy Share Image
![“[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.” quote by Billy Crystal](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c71/billy-crystal-6588_courses_i-did-impressions-of-relatives-because-i_2900630.jpg)
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