I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra… — Leon Theremin Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean,… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It never was about the musician or the instrument - it was about the laser notes in a hall of mirrors, the… — G.J. Paterson Copy Share Image
I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain… — Nick Valensi Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Great music is the only genre that actually matters, and the members of that club are far more similar to each other… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I just know of so many musicians who burn out because they go on tour and they have to play their one-hit… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll has always had that devil-may-care, 'We're young! We're indestructible.' I felt that way. Everybody feels that way. But I… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter,… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
“Got to go sing in a few minutes... no, that's GOT to go sing in a few minutes, as in... GOT TO… — Gloria Smith Copy Share Image
In all honesty I think, sometimes with the LGBT community, if you look at anything else surrounding it, there's always been this… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Probably every band - you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic,… — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
My debut album is like a collection of work over the past nine or ten years that I've been writing since I… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
My dad was a singer. Old classic stuff like 'Brown Eyed Girl,' or 'Delilah' if he was getting really dramatic. And there… — Nadine Coyle Copy Share Image
The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
I know I'm not the kind of music that's going to have tons of screaming fans, and I'm not gonna be everyone's… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
For decades, I've used flatwounds everywhere - studio and live. I prefer the punch and the fatness of a flatwound string. I… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
“heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Everybody goes up and does something in the private sector that they feel that they can do, and obviously I'm a musician… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
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