If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
“I just want that magical feeling I wrote about years ago when I used to write the lyrics for the band’s rock… — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
“Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
“All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not… — J.S. Bach Copy Share Image
Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
“And then the lights went low, and our song began. The song I’d been working on since I’d arrived on the island.… — Rachael Wade Copy Share Image
My father has a golden voice and sings beautifully. So does my brother, and my sister pursues dance as well. Love for… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years… — JD Era Copy Share Image
Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
“As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forward, and any resistance is hopeless"; it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
“When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase “land-owner,” the composer… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
“CHRIS CAFFERY: I'd have to say that everybody's favorite old Scorpions song as a guitar player is "The Sails of Charon." That… — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not… — Do You Hear the People Sing Les Miserables Copy Share Image
Growing up, my favorite group was New Edition. I loved the opportunity to do the remix to Bobby Brown's song 'Get Away'.… — Chris Stokes Copy Share Image
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
In the early days, myself and my friends were into punk because we had no money, just very basic instruments and skills.… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
