Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival."… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better.… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if thats all youve got,… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, most of the older activists, especially at Berkeley, were very hostile towards punks. The music, certainly, wasn't nice and… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of… — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends… — Gram Parsons Copy Share Image
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My dad still hasn't heard 'I Love My Dad,' and I'm sure he'll say something like, 'It's good, but I love your… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music.… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school, I remember singing in a chorus where they actually had two parts going. It was very… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved… — Thelma Houston Copy Share Image
If I'm talking about girls and stuff, it's usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are… — Lil Uzi Vert Copy Share Image
Im a huge music fan. I usually say that if I had been born with a musical inclination it wouldve been great.… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously,… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
Loving a band with all your heart is something you understand when it happens to you. On the surface, others can see… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
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