I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,'… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
As a kid, I took piano lessons, and I didn't like it. It wasn't cool. I was into Duran Duran and rock… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be cheered up. I felt like that feeling of the first day of summer or when a girl… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I think I write a lot, but it's always a continuous stream of consciousness, I guess. It's a mechanic. It's a discipline… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
At the time, there was a great disagreement over 'The Wild and the Innocent,' and I was asked to record the entire… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I always was into singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes. When I was in high school I wanted to do a project that was… — Brian Warren Copy Share Image
I'm not really sure record labels know what they're doing. No one knows what they're doing. It's kind of amazing because it's… — Griff Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in attendance, the Beatles headlined the Royal Variety Show, on which John, ever the silver-tongued… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Every member of the Beatles drove a Radford. Enzo Ferrari, Steve McQueen, Peter Sellers, Twiggy, they all had one. So it had… — Ant Anstead Copy Share Image
I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part,… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
I was three or four, and my mother would have a Bing Crosby record playing through the house. It was my introduction… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of metal shows when we're home. I don't know why, but it takes me back to when… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I think I got turned onto The Beach Boys for the first time with the 'Endless Summer' album in 1974. The power… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and… — Art Garfunkel Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them.… — Corey Harris Copy Share Image
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound… — Joseph Jarman Copy Share Image
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