Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time. — Milt Jackson Copy Share Image
I love playing the melodic stuff. I love adding textures and colors. — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I wanted people to say that our music sounds like Porcupine Tree, not that it sounds like King Crimson. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. — John Mayall Copy Share Image
My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her. — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“By the summer of 1958, the nucleus of the future Beatles—Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, two protons and a neutron—was formed.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
If you're a System fan and you gravitate towards the music, you enjoy the music, but you don't necessarily agree with the… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Trumpets [Hook:] Every time that you get undressed I hear symphonies in my head I wrote this song just looking at you… — Corey Sad Broken Heart Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
“Everything up to and including Unknown Pleasures really existed only when the four of us were in a room together playing it.… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“The man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — James Crook Copy Share Image
Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image