He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you… — Hollie Cavanagh Copy Share Image
My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say,… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
We [The Replacements] never made any money on tour. None of us came out of the school of economics. We took it… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Because your heart accelerates with the thrumming of the tympani and the brassy blast of the horn section; it keeps tempo, marks… — John Rowell Copy Share Image
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started… — Brandon Thomas Copy Share Image
With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I guess I'm very distinctive. I didn't realize how distinctive my voice is, the cadence of it, the slight rasp to it,… — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There’s a certain amount of humility that is attached to wonder, and a certain amount of pride attached to knowledge and I… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title?… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private,… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record… — Frankie Avalon Copy Share Image
If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
What has been America's most nurturing contribution to the culture of this planet so far? Many would say jazz. I, who love… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and… — Alan Freed Copy Share Image
Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
I'm doing super quality control. I'll have five tunes that I think are all good - before I would've put out all… — AJ Tracey Copy Share Image
I've never been one like, "Oh, these are my songs" - that was done out of necessity, because there was no one… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image