The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them.… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way… — LIZ Copy Share Image
We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our… — Karen Carpenter Copy Share Image
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but,… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a… — Shingai Shoniwa Copy Share Image
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I'll sing you a song of the long ago - Seven shine the shiners, oh! What did the Seven do way back… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The sweetest melody that plays on starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening ears and calming to beleaguering fears,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I feel like the times always present themselves. You don't consciously choose when a thing comes out. It's just like records for… — The Alchemist Copy Share Image
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The night we released 'Why This Kolaveri Di?,' I went home and played all the songs I had composed since I was… — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
It's funny when you find yourself Looking from the outside I'm standing here but all I want Is to be over there… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal… — Charles Munch Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too,… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The musical differences are obvious: the Go-Go's are more punk, while my solo work is more soft pop. But they're equally as… — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric.… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I have enjoyed writing songs for so long... it felt like in order to make music that I could relate to myself,… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies,… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“The only nineties performer I see worthy of wearing the Bee Gees mantle of grandiose love hurried on by an eternal wind… — Lisa Carver Copy Share Image
We'd practice in my living room and it was awesome. Our parents were pretty supportive of it because they thought it was… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
I, at times, was disappointed when my songs were neglected by executive producer Park Jin-young, but learned a lot in the journey… — Jamie Park Copy Share Image