When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
When I first released 'The One And Only' nobody knew it was going to be so big. I just thought, 'Oh, this… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right… — Vijay Kumar Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know… — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
I was married at the time when I first joined the band and my wife said: 'Why don't you write a song… — Bon Scott Copy Share Image
There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“Some people have used this song as evidence that I worship the devil, which is another chapter for the big book of… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
What's interesting about Vampire Weekend, everyone in the band, except for me, had a band in high school in which they were… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
It's not that I can't collaborate. It's just that I don't know how to say no to people. If someone's like, 'Let's… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
In 1970, my label decided I should do a Christmas album and I put a bunch of tunes together. We couldn't decide… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't know about things - but a lot of what I'm doing means one thing to me at… — Alex G Copy Share Image
With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I write songs when I need to. That's how I write songs: when there's something that's bugging me. If something's troubling me,… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a young musician on the jazz scene is that there are so many styles of music, jazz… — Dave Kikoski Copy Share Image
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
"My Trigger" is the best combination of song and track. "Heart Is Full" is maybe the best song we've done as a… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so… — Stefflon Don Copy Share Image
Paul McCartney is a genius ... Paul married Rock & Roll to beauty, and forever raised the bar for composers, musicians, and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist;… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
“If there is chemistry, and the mind and body are working as one, it's nirvana. It's like a well-written symphony or, better… — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
