I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I like the jarring thing, both in the music and the lyrics. That's why a lot of times our songs have a… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing… — Slash Copy Share Image
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It's basically me saying to the industry that I won't work within the walls in hip-hop. I want to put a twist… — SonReal Copy Share Image
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences -… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by… — Henry Cowell Copy Share Image
We were never the cool band to like. They tried to put us into a hair-metal thing, but we weren't really Warrant… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
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Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
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Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
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This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
One tries to be uplifting in one's songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one's demeanor leads to songs… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
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When you break into song, it's not about dialogue, it's not about how you would speak in a naturalistic sense-it's about expressing… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
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Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
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Obviously, any living musician born after 1960 has been touched by rock and roll. It's the music of our time, and it's… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
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![“I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.jpg)
![“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.” quote by Paul Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d25/paul-stanley-9031_ed-sullivan_i-saw-the-beatles-on-the-ed-sullivan-sho_3106501.jpg)
![“Trumpets [Hook:] Every time that you get undressed I hear symphonies in my head I wrote this song just looking at you oh, oh Yet the drums they swing low And the trumpets they go And the trumpets they go Yeah the trumpets they go Da da, da ra ra da, da, da Da, ra, ra, ra, da, da Da da, da ra ra…” quote by Corey Sad Broken Heart](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8b8/corey-sad-broken-heart-78816_katy-perry_trumpets-hook-every-time-that-you-get-un_2684356.jpg)
