With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just… — Clairo Copy Share Image
What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was… — Curtis Jones Copy Share Image
We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the… — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
Digital distribution is a whole other way of communicating with your fans and giving them content at their leisure. It's like, there… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Even with so many artists using auto-tune, there's still a growing group of artists rising up and going in the opposite direction,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring [making music] to the… — william shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to… — Drew Seeley Copy Share Image
“You should be making music primarily because you love it. Most everything else is a bonus. If you have fans at all,… — Bruce Duff Copy Share Image
I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don't want people to… — Evan Ross Copy Share Image
When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I feel like I wasn't making music that meant anything to me until I was 26 years old, so I'm realizing that… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you think back to the greats and some of my favourite artists like Megadeth and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston...… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
“Viewed from above, on the mainmast shroud, they seemed suddenly so small, this little circle, making music, clustered on a floating stage,… — Harvey Oxenhorn Copy Share Image
Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up with creative parents and around creative people, many of whom live with anxiety. My… — Mabel Copy Share Image
I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by a lot of things. I came from Indonesia. I grew up watching a lot of YouTube videos and was… — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great… — Asher Monroe Copy Share Image
I was first inspired to make music by my cousin Oran. He was making music on an old Mac II by himself… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
It's never been about what we want others to see: it's about what we want to see; it's about what we want… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“But most people don’t bother to engage in acts of creation, like drawing pictures, making music, or building model airplanes. There’s no… — Daniel Z. Lieberman Copy Share Image
“It’s not a real place, not a real thing. Mom made up the Gray Space, the place of anti-art, antifeeling, the cold… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I… — Lukasz Gottwald Copy Share Image
The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image