My advice for someone just learning the ukulele would be to have fun with it and not take anything too seriously. Some… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
I got into alternative rock in the early 80s, bands like Husker Du and The Replacements. Bob Mould's playing was a huge… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“Anyways, the guys try to be cool. They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing - you… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand… — Petula Clark Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
I wish Kurt Cobain didn't die. I really don't know where he'd be right now, I don't know what he'd be like.… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is,… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going… — Joe Principe Copy Share Image
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's,… — Flume Copy Share Image
Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
We didn't like the way that our 'Behind the Music' came out at all, to say the least, and so it made… — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
When I reissue these Minimal Wave Record songs, I also re-master them. With Oppenheimer Analysis, it turned out that the band still… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do music, but it took me a long time to figure out how to exactly do… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“Because music is the heart’s greatest librarian. A few notes had the ability to transport me back in time, and to the… — Kate Stewart Copy Share Image
We try to make air-tight, intricate songs with melodies and counter-melodies and rhythms that work together, and we try to make it… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
The song that's mostly changing my career or made the biggest impact on my career would be 'Catch Me Outside.' Mainly because… — Ski Mask the Slump God Copy Share Image
With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
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