The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
I think it started with both the shows and the box set from finishing White Material. I think we were also pretty… — Stuart A. Staples Copy Share Image
I love being in the band and I love being the fourth member of 5SOS, but someone I've seen do something separate… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and… — Frank Rutter Copy Share Image
There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people… — Shannon Hoon Copy Share Image
A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I've learned how to be a better performer on stage and interact with the fans, make it feel like a collective experience… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums.… — Stompin' Tom Connors Copy Share Image
There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were very… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“A lark, caught in a hunter’s net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about a song like 'Bulletproof Heart' - it was [originally] called 'Trans Am' - the interesting thing about the… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We're grown men; we were kids when we started. Going through life, there are things we've all gone through - life's ups… — Lajon Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I love colors, but I also love rich sounds. And I feel like when it comes to colored ukuleles, people assume they're… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school -… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so… — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a… — Boy George Copy Share Image
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the… — Yanni Copy Share Image
“I’m a maker of ballads right pretty I write them right here in the street You can buy them all over the… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
When we started making mixtapes, we were just ripping stuff off YouTube and DVDs, naively thinking that because we were putting it… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard… — Colin Linden Copy Share Image
![“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had…” quote by Rosanne Cash](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/14b/rosanne-cash-7972_anti-war_my-dad-johnny-cash-went-to-the-richard-n_2919962.jpg)
![“Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics.” quote by Denis Leary](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a90/denis-leary-1350_hate_liz-gillies-doesn-t-really-listen-to-any_1481920.png)
![“The interesting thing about a song like 'Bulletproof Heart' - it was [originally] called 'Trans Am' - the interesting thing about the amalgamation of that song was that the song also lived within us, like we all got to live with the song and it was around for about a year before we recorded it…” quote by Mikey Way](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b60/mikey-way-24091_amalgamation_the-interesting-thing-about-a-song-like_86690.jpg)
![“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music…” quote by Boy George](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0ec/boy-george-1385_addict_what-happened-during-the-previews-of-tab_2056747.png)
