When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.'… — Robyn Copy Share Image
In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
“His performance was also intensely visual, with his volatile movements in front of the piano, and his cries and wild vocal accompaniment… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
“The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
When my first song was released, I needed some reassurance. I went to my grandmother and she said to me, 'These lyrics… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking… — David First Copy Share Image
Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“Like one of his heroes, Tom Waits, whenever Yorke feels like his songwriting is getting too comfortable or stale, he’ll pick up… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
No, I don't go along with everything they say or do. For example, I'm probably the only one in the band who… — Randy Meisner Copy Share Image
I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible… — Tory Lanez Copy Share Image
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
“The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that… — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration.… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I love music - really a lot. That's why I do it. But mine just never makes it, to me. There's always… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't want to be broke. Never again. That's why I try to put those things in my songs because when I… — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But especially in America when you've got four people in a room and they do a songwriting day, well one of them… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
“But part of love is a record playing, a needle that drops over and over, repeat and repeat, until the voices are… — Esm�aji Codell Copy Share Image
“The houses have been condemned on Memory Lane I’m tired of this struggle that leaves everything the same I’ve tried so hard… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul,… — Rumi Copy Share Image