Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !... — John Sebastian Copy Share Image
For as long as I'm able to write songs and sing them, it's just about making them ones I feel proud to… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I used to - my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10.… — Bono Copy Share Image
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive. — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad… — Moby Copy Share Image
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
“And I remember when I met him. It was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The best thing for me is the amount of DMs and people hitting me up every day saying, 'Your music is providing… — Yungblud Copy Share Image
I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A lot of rappers nowadays will say they don't listen to anybody, but I like to hear what's going on. I don't… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
I don't understand how a musician can play 90 minutes on stage and then not dedicate a little bit of time to… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music,… — Little Louie Vega Copy Share Image
Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music… — Tori Kelly Copy Share Image
I got where I am through a series of flukes - I'm basically a musician and a writer, not a pop star. — David Essex Copy Share Image
I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I wrote about ladies who had come through the studio. I get asked, 'Is it a choice to gender the music or… — King Princess Copy Share Image
I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming.… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it. — Jack Black Copy Share Image
With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be… — Richard Hilfiger Copy Share Image
With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
