Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles,… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's… — Jack White Copy Share Image
When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
I'm one of a dying breed who goes out and tours all the time. Labels don't spend the money to send people… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who… — Deanna Durbin Copy Share Image
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it.… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
“George, we're the Red Hot Chili Peppers, we're from Hollywood, California, we're really hard-rocking motherfuckers, and we think you should produce our… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
For us, we've always felt compelled to talk about the realities of life. That's where we come from, from that first Cypress… — B-Real Copy Share Image
First song I write, me go to my mother, and she say, 'Write love songs.' She's one of the oldest, so she's… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole… — Akon Copy Share Image
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where… — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
Why did I like simpler songs? Just times change. This is one of the repeated things I hear: even though people will… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
In our band, the difficulty really isn't, 'Is one of us gonna fall off the wagon or get into a bad situation?'… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
