I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like,… — Common Copy Share Image
A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and… — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“A song about my life If there were to be a song ‘bout my life It would sting like a bee It… — Aman Kumar Copy Share Image
Yeah it's completely different, it's matured tenfold. We wrote the first album over five years as teenagers but now we've got the… — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image
The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I think my music is definitely country but it's got a little bit of that rock flair about it. I always try… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
I think the narratives on 'Trans,' 'Plans,' and 'Narrow Stairs' moved away from the way I wrote on the first couple of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I have heard people giving different testimonies about what the music has done for them, for their children, for their life, for… — Rita Marley Copy Share Image
Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
I would want to bring a certain kind of unity and awareness to different things. Even in the 80s, I wanted to… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere,… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“isn’t this why the rearing in music is most sovereign? Because rhythm and harmony most of all insinuate themselves into the inmost… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
'Waking the Fallen' truly encompasses everything that Avenged Sevenfold was at that time. It was us being fearless, us showing our roots… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
The moment when I use to play guitar Smile on my face becomes double.. The moment when I use to play guitar… — Ishmeet Copy Share Image
Little by little, I get to see my music reach people's hearts. There was a time when it was all part of… — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know?… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own experiences with song. It means one thing to me and it means something entirely different to somebody else.… — NAO Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
