The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group...… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Everybody needs inspiration Everybody needs a song A beautiful melody when the night's so long 'Cause there is no guarantee that this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
We feel this passion that we have for music and this relentless need to pursue it and follow it and go wherever… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people… — Nelson Eddy Copy Share Image
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele Copy Share Image
Musicians in my day had nicknames. My name was "Satchel Mouth," like a doctor's satchel. When I went to England this fellow… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
I think you can realise that a lot of people in bands - well - I guess you kinda wanna... There's a… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day.… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
Every song is a piece to the puzzle. On my album theres no shoot em up bang bang, no partying all crazy… — Yung Berg Copy Share Image
I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
Every place has its own punk flavor, but they all borrowed ideas from SoCal. It's still a vibrant scene creeping into every… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I'm just old enough to be able to say I got those very first Beatles records right as they were hitting America.… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. And… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked… — Sirena Huang Copy Share Image
I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
After my mother passed away, I felt as though I would never have a relationship as strong as the one that I… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
It's kind of great being a group without a lead singer, because the possibilities are sky high. Odd things become the lead… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
“and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I've just had this idea pop in my head of trying to learn a new song every da, and try and play… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“The artist sang of dreams and a home. Blake moved slowly with Livia, and she could feel the lyrics vibrating in his… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
An example I love: Diwata auditioned for the school play by doing a big number from Once Upon A Mattress. I went… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
I've grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it's emblematic of the Rolling Stones song,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
