The end of the Nineties was an unhappy Primus camp. I hit a creative stagnation that wasn't helping us forward, and the… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
It's amazing how a lot of the metal guys have never strummed! And it's not that challenging, but it really opens up… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
Remembering growing up on U.S. Army bases stateside and abroad, the Star-Spangled Banner was played at important occasions... and often. It was… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
It's human nature to desire vengeance towards those who have done us wrong in the past, but if you do not forgive,… — Jayy Von Monroe Copy Share Image
I try not to "perform." I try to come on stage and be myself, to sing the way I would in a… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about]… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish.… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
“The balding headstones of the others—quarantined from their own mothers & sisters & daughters— I wondered if they, like us, were strange… — Jennifer Givhan Copy Share Image
I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come… — Charlie Louvin Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
“This song goes out to the girl who is my everything. I'm not an easy man to love, and music is about… — Michelle A. Valentine Copy Share Image
Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
I look at it like this: you may only sell 20,000 to 100,000 albums. But those albums are going to be heard… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the… — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
I think that the most significant, guiding principle was that we wanted to return to a three-piece live form, whereas we became… — Chris Cain Copy Share Image
It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need to be constantly hyped.… — Tessanne Chin Copy Share Image
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
You should write songs about what you feel, but you can't write in such a way like it's a diary entry. You… — Lights Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're at a combined birthday party of two or more people, singing Happy Birthday, and you have to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song,… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then… — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to… — Tobias Jesso Jr Copy Share Image
You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
![“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that…” quote by Paul McCartney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/paul-mccartney-987_happened_so-many-times-i-will-have-people-tell-me_1852264.png)
