“If it’s your song, I don’t need lyrics to know what you’re saying.” — Meredith Shayne Copy Share Image
Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a song, I try to think about how I want it to feel and try to… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs. — Ray Stevens Copy Share Image
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. — Richard Hyung-ki Joo Copy Share Image
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. — David Amram Copy Share Image
A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.'… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“I know it'll change, and I know that is has changed. But I still think it's a very satisfying medium, to put… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ...… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“The sum of his life was a unique melody, hauntingly beautiful and powerful.” — Ann Marston Copy Share Image
In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is. — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear. — El-P Copy Share Image
I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do. — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
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