“Hello hello hello is anybody out there? does anybody hear me? Is anyone at home? - Pink Floyd, The Wall” — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent. — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
I mean, when it gets down to it I just wanted to play the drums. The rest of it never meant that… — Bill Kreutzmann Copy Share Image
What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair… — Mike D Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
But the first time I had to stand up and sing with them was when we did the pre-record for the movie… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Echo & the Bunnymen just copied 'People Are Strange,' which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“Bruce Springsteen settled down. He used to run around with lots of women and now all he wants to do is hang… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
“Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang (He who loves not Wine, Women and Song Remains… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff. — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world. — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a… — James Iha Copy Share Image
If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time. — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“And cranking Sufjan Stevens at top volume doesn't solve anything, which is probably why people don't crank Sufjan Stevens.” — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
We haven't quite been able to put together the deal for the shuttle -- we want to be the lounge act. Be… — Aerosmith Copy Share Image
I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Of everything I've done in my career, or whatever you want to call it, 'Lost' is the purest version of me musically. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're… — Rick James Copy Share Image
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of sad songs, and I got to the point where I was like, 'You can't write another… — Dean Lewis Copy Share Image