I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
I think 12 songs is too much to listen to all at once. When I buy a record, I get to the… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
I think, there are a couple of songs. I'm really proud of How far I'll Go. I literally locked myself up in… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
We've grown up on the Beach Boys and the Beatles and Blur and Bowie and the Clash. Also E.L.O. and Hall and… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want… — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
I feel that if Bollywood singers focus on non-film music as well... like this EP 'Naina,' which has songs sung by Sonu… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
I used almost every penny I ever made to build recording studios in every city I lived in. I don't have much… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
“Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one… — Phoebe Tonkin Copy Share Image
For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a… — Bernie Leadon Copy Share Image
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know?… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
I got to work with David Hodges, who used to be in Evanescence, on some songs. He's written a ton of songs… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this,… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The popular songs that were written in the 1920s and '30s, '40s and early '50s were written by veterans - mostly men… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
“Giggling, I drifted into a rendition of You’re so Vain by Carly Simon to Lost Cause from Beck, stopping after (I Hate)… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
If you are having a hard week, turn on one of my songs. Some people are here for different things in life.… — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the… — Laura Adams Armer Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
