I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep… — Grant-Lee Phillips Copy Share Image
Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when… — Babatunde Olatunji Copy Share Image
My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I… — Ben Kweller Copy Share Image
I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about playing with a band, Peter thought. There was always someone else to rescue you when it seemed… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it,… — Vance Joy Copy Share Image
Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
The songs that are getting recreated by us or fellow industry friends are because these songs were gold in their time and… — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
It's like different moods, so whenever you in one mood, I got a song for that. And then you in a down… — Gunna Copy Share Image
To make a live record - something that has a lot of life in it - is difficult. After slaving away for… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
I don't worry about alienating fans. I don't think most people these days think of artists as sellouts if they license their… — Alexis Krauss Copy Share Image
I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material.… — Peggy Lee Copy Share Image
“Let you sing of us all by name, that we may live as long as the song." "All three hundred of you?"… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
I like independent music because we have a lot of creative freedom to what we want, but when it comes to films… — Sonu Kakkar Copy Share Image
I feel like when I get into most rooms, melodies come really easily to me, and they sound good in my head.… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
After I wrote 'The Best Of Times' for my dad and after I completed the '12 Steps Suite' with Dream Theater, I… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone.… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Sing, Sing a song, Sing out loud, Sing out strong, Sing of good things, not bad, Sing of happy, not sad, Sing,… — Joe Raposo Copy Share Image
Earlier in my career I just thought "I'm not very confident, I don't like singing to people." But people had some faith… — Jessie Ware Copy Share Image
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image