I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit… — Zedd Copy Share Image
That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
Some songs just fall out of you. And some you have to wrestle out like an abscess. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
Make no mistakes son, that's Jake One. He makes beats well like I likes my steaks done. — MF Doom Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas. — Elias Copy Share Image
As a band, were always going to be evolving and changing. I really couldnt tell you where the music is going to… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
“One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs.… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
With 'Goddess,' I think the song itself tells such a strong story. And for the music video, we really wanted to do… — Laufey Copy Share Image
One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Now it's curtains for you you've done wrong. You're so vain, I think you'd take credit for this song. — Kittie Copy Share Image
It would be really great if our music continues to touch people. Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something… — Jimin Copy Share Image
Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private. — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up. — Mickey Gilley Copy Share Image
I think I have talent on some levels, I don't think I'm the worst singer. But I don't think I'm the best… — Rebecca Black Copy Share Image
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really… — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom. — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Every time someone come out with an album don't change the whole style up but don't do what they are expecting. Surprise… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. — Gary Cherone Copy Share Image
And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
My songs are very much a kind of psychoanalysis. I am very introspective in my songs, and I am working through, always. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
When I'm writing good music and I'm caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. — Elton John Copy Share Image
A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched. — Thalia Copy Share Image
I don't get into the favorite songs thing, because so many speak to different parts of my life, but the music in… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image