It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I saw a Velveeta commercial, and it was playing, I think, 'Burning Love.' [Jackson] had approved it-that's something we can't control. He… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
To be very fair, it was Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware who started The Human League. They brought Philip Oakey in to… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Music is not for making fun only,Music performs so many roles in our everyday lif,like music takes a way stress just by… — Princealanz Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
I don't really give a f**k about the mainstream. The mainstream doesn't offer me anything. Why would I offer it anything? I… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I write songs with the arrangements all at once, in my head. There's the producer side of me… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that… — Raheem Jarbo Copy Share Image
You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and… — Dierks Bentley Copy Share Image
I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner... And at… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
We in Cafe Tacvba try different things every time there's an arrangement opportunity with a new song. But I'm not the only… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many songs... but there's one song from the movie 'Mr. X' called 'Tu Jo Hain,' and it's special. People usually… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
“What good is music? None, Gage thought, and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
“Frodo heard a sweet singing running in his mind: a song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music… — Niklas Zennstrom Copy Share Image
I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice… — Baaba Maal Copy Share Image
“All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy. It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio… — RaeLynn Copy Share Image
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their… — Matt Shultz Copy Share Image
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
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