How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It's weird being an author because it's different than writing songs. You put so much more of yourself out there to be… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later.… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote…this is actually… — Wednesday 13 Copy Share Image
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree… — Mike D Copy Share Image
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
For me, music always leads. Lyrics are only about how they sing. It is wonderful if they read well, too. In the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
“Beyond my personal reasons for not looking back, a Husker Du reunion would surely tarnish the history of the band. It's the… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to… — Ze Frank Copy Share Image
When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
When you make timeless music - and I like to think that's what I'm doing - the fun part is picking the… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
Since my tour (in Japan) just finished, I started writing songs. I was inspired a lot while on the road and I… — Angela Aki Copy Share Image
“This song is about when you really like a beautiful person and they don’t like you back. I know. But there’s a… — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
I've grown up with jazz - the Joe Hendersons, Oliver Nelsons, Miles Davis and stuff - but I was also listening to,… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how… — Cardi B Copy Share Image
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone - you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my 'Umbrella' song. Those songs… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
With my career, everything I do is me. There's no one that handles telling me what I should be about or how… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
My mom's always had her hands full, literally juggling babies. So I think growing up made me just kind of get on… — Griff Copy Share Image
I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
At the end of the day Some you win, some you dont So Im glad that Im here Wish some friends that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask,… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
My soundtrack to life would have to be 'TT.' It has gained a lot of love since we debuted it in Japan.… — Jeongyeon Copy Share Image
To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition.… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
