Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never… — Simone Signoret Copy Share Image
“I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write… — David Nail Copy Share Image
Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies,… — Common Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“A stream of notes travelled through the ventilation shafts of a small nightclub in the city’s old quarter and drifted onto the… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
'Carbs' is the first song I wrote, and 'I Wanna Boi' is the second song I wrote. I am very proud of… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and… — Ben Weinman Copy Share Image
I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
When we try and blend the two together, the songwriting and the touring like we did before, it doesn't really work. We… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
“The song of Lúthien before Mandos was the song most fair that ever in words was woven, and the song most sorrowful… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something… — Derek E. Miller Copy Share Image
Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a really old-school record with young, hip musicians to give it just that fresh breath of air but… — Melissa Morgan Copy Share Image
We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I work more emotively. If someone listens to one of my songs and says, "I know exactly what that's about," then I've… — Justin Rutledge Copy Share Image
DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and… — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“I’m here if you need an ear. You can count on me.” With that, she left the loft. Loretta wrapped her arms… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time,… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Life is like a piano, The white keys represent happiness. And the black ones shows sadness. But as you got through life's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1990 if you heard a song on the radio and you really wanted to hear it again you'd have to buy… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I do it because it's me. At the end of the day, I only know how to be me.… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
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