We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant… — Caleb Followill Copy Share Image
I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
“The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought… — Sia Copy Share Image
The best songs that I write usually come in, like, two minutes, and I think a lot of songwriters would probably say… — Lauren Hart Copy Share Image
For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety.… — Marcel Tabuteau Copy Share Image
I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides,… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath - things… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine.… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to… — Eugene Hutz Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
I mean regardless of what kind of success we have, this is one of the most gratifying things in the world -… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
I would pass this music store on the way to school, and there was a clarinet in the window, a second-hand one.… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and,… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
I more or less think that the trombone was chosen for me. I first selected a violin, which I didn't do too… — Curtis Fuller Copy Share Image
A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
