I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very… — Flume Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
A person who shakes a leg to 'Zor ka jhatka' at a disc doesn't care about its picturization in the film. He… — Shaan Copy Share Image
I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk… — James Righton Copy Share Image
We've seen progressive rock all over the world, in South America, Europe, Asia, across the US and North America and Australia. There's… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that.… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“it shouldn’t always take a song or someone exalting to get you to realize how blessed you are and to just thank… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
These is old blues / and I sing em like any woman do. / These the old blues / and I sing… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some… — Fefe Dobson Copy Share Image
There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well.… — James Righton Copy Share Image
Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd… — Guy Berryman Copy Share Image
I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who… — Rahki Copy Share Image
I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a… — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
Writing a song that really meant so much to me, and having it mean a lot to other people, it's been the… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If you're recording the song on your four-track in your kitchen, when you finished writing the song, you're recording, and it's cool,… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
“The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience.… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
“Young has a personal relationship with electricity. In Europe, where the electrical current is sixty cycles, not fifty, he can pinpoint the… — Jimmy McDonough Copy Share Image
As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experience it… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer -… — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
