My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else. — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California. — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what… — Drake Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough Miles Davis was an influence, and the way he approached harmonics. And one of my biggest influences was Dionne Warwick,… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this… — Beck Copy Share Image
I had never really written songs for anyone before. With [Broken] Social Scene, you're writing songs for others and your passing them… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing. — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business. — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor Copy Share Image