If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a… — Stella Mozgawa Copy Share Image
I come from a big family of musicians, so I was lucky enough to grow up with guitars all around the house.… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that]… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I like textures and tones. Sometimes, it will be a melodic feedback from a song or something. I like warm, ethereal sounds.… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“We talk of strong personalities, and they are strong, until the not-every-day when we see them as we might see one woman… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn player or a guitar player - you hear… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a… — Ali Partovi Copy Share Image
I don't listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there's a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
From the age of 16 on, I brought my guitar everywhere. I just fell in love with learning the guitar, and I… — Donavon Frankenreiter Copy Share Image
When I'm performing, the crowd just disappears, it's like everyone merges - one big person. You just say the words and people… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
All of my songs were about my firsthand experiences. Pretty much, I've learned how to become my own muse and take situations… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano since I was 5, and started writing when I was 6 or 7. It was never a revelation… — Mark Salling Copy Share Image
What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke… — Slash Copy Share Image
“You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart.… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
There's a Norwegian equivalent to 'BBC Introducing' called 'P3 Untouched,' and I remember when they played the first song I ever wrote… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
“We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni' is a cult classic and also one of my favourite songs from a Yash Chopra movie. The… — Vaani Kapoor Copy Share Image
“No exterior sounds were audible to dilute the glorious music that emanated from the Rolls-Royce’s top of the range sound system. The… — Tom Wood Copy Share Image
We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else,… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died,… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Do I love it do I lust it, Struggle of a hustla, Life of a banger, And death is no stranger, I… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image