“I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame. I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame. Don’t… — Lexi Ryan Copy Share Image
I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
You have to like a song, take in all you can and sync it. Be it a sad song or a dappakuthu… — KK Copy Share Image
There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music -… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
“I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone’s chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music." He didn’t… — Sarah Mayberry Copy Share Image
“You heard and felt the harmonies of light, at least the surface of them, but you didn’t notice, did you, that the… — William P Young Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.… — Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“5. Thou must set the scene with tunes. Road trips aren't the only time a decent playlist is required. How we consume… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
I definitely strive towards something I think of as a hallucination of music. That's always been the OPN vibe. I think of… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I… — David Nail Copy Share Image
Every time the mainstream media talk about progressive rock, they wheel out a clip of Rick Wakeman in a cape. For me,… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“Poets represent love as sculptors design beauty, as musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
I would rather write songs and then practice with the band. Just the band camaraderie is awesome and then writing music and… — Sam McCandless Copy Share Image
I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and… — No I.D Copy Share Image
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It was a very normal working-class family. My dad used to play guitar in a band around pubs and clubs and stuff,… — Carrie Hope Fletcher Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
If I am a fan of my own music, which I am, I want to hear the best Madchild I can hear.… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be recognized by your peers over the course of your career, but the Grammy is something else altogether.… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was… — Sam Andrew Copy Share Image
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
