18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
“Felix was in his room singing into a tape recorder then playing it back and exclaiming, “My God. Do I actually sound… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you're going to do a mash-up with five… — Harvey Mason, Jr Copy Share Image
Now I'm able to play on the main stage and play my own tracks and the crowd likes them. I feel like… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it.… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue smoke, memories not only of… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
After 'City of Evil,' the world was still kind of apprehensive about Avenged Sevenfold. They didn't know if we were a serious… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't… — Tila Tequila Copy Share Image
Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the… — Raphael Saadiq Copy Share Image
Film is the only art form where we feel we have to title our stuff literally. Musicians don't have to title their… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean… — Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five Copy Share Image
None of the jazz greats made music for the purpose of you going to check out music before them. Michael Jackson didn't… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this… — Beck Copy Share Image
Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous...… — Jack Endino Copy Share Image
I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
To most people, jazz-fusion means this dreadful synthetic jazz-rock thing, this jazz-Muzak, which I detest. They also think of jazz as a… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
My favorite over the years is probably 'All I Have to Give.' That's probably my favorite. It's one of the first songs… — Howie Dorough Copy Share Image
I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick,… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what… — Drake Copy Share Image
I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost… — Joe Williams Copy Share Image
You can have a favorite band, but when they sign with a major label... maybe a new producer says, 'You can't do… — Austin Aries Copy Share Image
“She said, 'People don't know what they like until they hear it. And that is the magic of music. Every song is… — Leslie Hauser Copy Share Image
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Music doth extenuate fears furies appeaseth cruelty abateth heaviness and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all… — Cassiodorus Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want… — Andrew Fletcher Copy Share Image
![“I love the creation process [of music] of it and then sharing it, so I think that was the shift. I never thought I was going to be on a label in general, I was like 'Oh, I wouldn't do that,' and then we ended up on the same label basically.” quote by Jillian Hervey](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bb1/jillian-hervey-5299_creation_i-love-the-creation-process-of-music-of_754925.jpg)
![“I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them around and exchanging things, but for a man who has the history that Andy Kim had, and has lived the life that he's had, you see such a youthful aspect of how he…” quote by Kevin Drew](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0a1/kevin-drew-22547_aspect_i-had-never-really-written-songs-for-any_864668.png)
![“We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as…” quote by Johnny Cash](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f7c/johnny-cash-1517_comfortable_we-with-rick-rubin-would-focus-on-the-on_2199964.jpg)
