In the old days, all the movie songs were recorded right…

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

— Layne Staley

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing…

— Ruth Brown

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the…

— M.I.A

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded…

— Stephen Stills

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

— Dimple Kapadia

Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a…

— Ladyhawke

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album…

— Quentin Tarantino

Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with…

— Bob Dylan

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a…

— Jimmy Carl Black

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm…

— Tanya Tucker

In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the…

— Ian Anderson

I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was out there…

— Gordon Lightfoot

Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever would record the song. It's tough…

— Cole Swindell

One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs…

— Judith Durham

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a…

— Don Felder