People are consuming more than ever, but I think they want a bit of honesty and depth. Adele, Gotye, Janelle Monae -… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made… — Petula Clark Copy Share Image
“you've got the words to change a nation but your biting your tongue, you've spent a lifetime in silence afraid that you'll… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians.… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me… — Mary Lou Williams Copy Share Image
I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I had always been a jazz fan - Django Reinhardt, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, the early George Benson. And I… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
I worked with Snoop, but I would love to work with him again, but DMX I would love to work with him… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it… — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything… — Brendan Bayliss Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like 'REO Speedwagon', and you really hate them, there's 'You… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
When you wrote a song way back in the day, you were writing material to play live. And you would buy the… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Our song is the slammin' screen door, sneaking out late tapping on your window and when we're on the phone and you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like… — Ryo Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark… — Mick Harris Copy Share Image
People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to always explain my songs, and people always expect a meaning and to know what it's about. Sometimes… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
When we hear music that we love that changes the world for us, we might as well at least aspire to something… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Auri took it, and peered inside the small leather sack. “Why this is lovely, Kvothe. What lives in the salt?” Trace minerals,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I love to learn, and I started doing a lot of studying of Spanish-style music and really started getting into it and… — John 5 Copy Share Image
It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you… — Kristin Hersh Copy Share Image
I don't write songs, so I'm not worried about who's going to write the song. I'm just ready. You just give me… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There… — Dee Snider Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have… — Moby Copy Share Image
“The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
