On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down… — Bert Williams Copy Share Image
When I was between the ages of 5 and 8 years old, I fell in love with the music of composers like… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I'll bet she's beautiful. That girl he talks about. And she's got everything that I have to live without. He's the reason… — Myself Copy Share Image
Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
We can either rip your face up with 'Painkiller,' or we can play this beautiful thing called 'Last Rose of Summer' from… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
People often comment on the feeling and soul in my music, and I think part of that comes from the honesty and… — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
“What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
“-I'll play you a song. Blake flexed his fingers and concentrated harder on the cardboard, moving his hands methodically over it's surface.… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
You have to think, when I was growing up Internet was a thing but no one had it. We didn't have it… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's… — Dom Thomas Copy Share Image
I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
I love to get music sent as an MP3 attachment because that way I can preview the song in my e-mail, without… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album,… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
“No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing… — Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Copy Share Image
“The nose can’t help catchin’ what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil’s been around for a… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a… — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We kind of just got more mature and more realistic with what we're doing. We kinda said, "We quit our jobs and… — Jordan Buckley Copy Share Image
The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty,… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I used to personally dread writing lyrics. Because I never really understood how to do it. And for some reason, in this… — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born,… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested,… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image