A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Being in a rock band for 20 years is not the best resume for anything else. — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along. — Skitch Henderson Copy Share Image
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I once tried to sing jazz for real. But jazz didn't do it for me. You can't have jazz without a jazz… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different. — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up. — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours.… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
“Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. — Humphrey Lyttelton Copy Share Image
The Grand Ole Opry is an artist, and I am proud to be one of its songs. — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs. — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans. — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
