My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my… — Valee Copy Share Image
There's a couple of songs of my own I wished I'd have never put out, that, you know, I'd like to burn.… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating"… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
“The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I've always loved New Orleans music. I always loved it when the Neville Brothers opened up for the Grateful Dead and the… — Bill Kreutzmann Copy Share Image
Music is my favorite part of life but when you are around life becomes even more melodious. You are a sweet tune… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
“I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
So I put one foot in front of the other. No no no nothing's gonna break my stride. I keep climbing, gonna… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I usually know what kind of song I'm after. I know what I'm trying to do when I start. I don't always… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
There are definitely some songs more than others where I feel like I'm reliving a moment in time. — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
It took me a while to start releasing music, because it was important to me that I knew what I wanted to… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain… — Charles Munch Copy Share Image
I feel a bit like the antichrist as I had the bulk of my success in the 80s and I hate 80s… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that… — Matt Tong Copy Share Image
If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but… — Doug Martsch Copy Share Image
I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
When I first started doing music I was singing, then I started rappin, then I came back to the singing. It was… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I pray that when people hear my music, they say at the very least 'man I'm glad that someone else feels that… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played… — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
