I know exactly what my songs are about and I try not to tell people, because a friend of mine really loves… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what?… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“As I read the words to what later became ‘A Song For,’ I was brought to tears.… It was so tragically beautiful.… — Robert Earl Hardy Copy Share Image
Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships -… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services]… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior.… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version… — Edward Rothstein Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to… — Albert E. Brumley Copy Share Image
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy… — Andrew Dost Copy Share Image
And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I got signed with the songwriting deal when I was sixteen and they were really great - my publishers, who to this… — Lights Copy Share Image
“city’s anthem, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for “the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be Courtney Love, I wanna be Kurt Cobain. He's brilliant and his songs are genius. The Hole records are… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I… — Gael Monfils Copy Share Image
Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other… — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
I wish I could fly that I may bring you the song of my heart the song that could spell how I… — ROSANA CHRISTOPHER Copy Share Image
There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
When you have these moments where a song connects with people and creates a conversation, it's quite a humbling experience because it's… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it,… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image