We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
Our music which people call shit and emo and whatever has saved so many people from suicide. It has shown them out… — Brad D'Roza Copy Share Image
I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was… — Lene Marlin Copy Share Image
If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I think that's Glassjaw's identity - the disconnect between what we think we are and what our fans think we're supposed to… — Daryl Palumbo Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I want Bappa to be amongst the best music composers. My father was a great singer and I also did quite well… — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
“The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the… — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I make songs that when you hear it the first time, you're not supposed to get it completely. I do it on… — Jaren Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that I'm a one-trick pony, even if I am! No matter what else I do, I have… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with… — Sting Copy Share Image
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix,… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
“I reached over and grabbed my ear buds off the nightstand, crammed them into my ears, and connected them to my cellphone.… — Allison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded,… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that,… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Music can change hearts and minds, it can unite opposing factions. Music can even heal. If a singer can touch your heart… — Scott Wm Simpson Copy Share Image
I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable.… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't… — Yuu Watase Copy Share Image
Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in… — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide,… — Toni Basil Copy Share Image
I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
You see a lot of bands and a lot of artists making that mistake: They become successful for doing something, and then… — Passenger Copy Share Image
The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
