Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Great Spirit when we come singing. When we face the sunset the last song, may it be, without shame, singing "It is… — Evelyn Eaton Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“Let your heart sing from those wounded places. When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal… — Gemma B. Benton Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made… — Gretchen Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God.… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
You know that one don't play music just for the hours to pass. But you play music because you are in love… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting, Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang. Tonight, if we should… — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when we're on tour, I'll find an empty room or a corner and I'll just sing. It heals something in me,… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music.… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start.… — Willy Mason Copy Share Image
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“Let freedom ring / let the white dove sing / let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Everyone has their own journey, and for me, going from singing background to writing songs has truly opened doors for me and… — Luke James Copy Share Image
