Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Music is obviously our No. 1, always. But it's so fun to venture out to another creative outlet. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
Broken Clocks' is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar. — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died. — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
“Music wasn't really music unless your soul was exposed, unless your heart was either bursting or breaking.” — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't… — Michael Bland Copy Share Image
At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
And sometimes you just have to trust that there will be more, sometimes you go through dry spells and you have to… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song,… — Rhea Ripley Copy Share Image
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“Song " I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who carries around a notepad and writes songs all day long. I don't imagine everything I think of is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood… — Willie Taylor Copy Share Image
I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
When you're making a record, you try to achieve stylistically what fits on you. Like a good old coat, you know what… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same… — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
Lestining to my favorate song and when I began to analyse the lyrics I fugere out that the massege in them is… — Simphiwe Scientist Dumi Copy Share Image
I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car. — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part. — Katy B Copy Share Image
I think that you should just be yourself and make sure you pick a really, really good song, and make sure you're… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
We're a band's band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
“The sheet of life's music runs in front of us in endless reams, but without the ears that God grants us they… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I actually never wanted to sing, and I thought that I was never going to sing, but I see that God had… — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that.… — Del Shannon Copy Share Image
I'm going to write music that's appropriate to my age. And if younger people want to come along with me, they're welcome… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
“I want to write a song called “Two Straws and a Spoon,” about one man being cuckolded by a milkshake.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary… — Ben Weinman Copy Share Image
“She's somewhere in the sunlight strong, / Her tears are in the falling rain, / She calls me in the wind's soft… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs. — Deanna Durbin Copy Share Image
I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. We’re all going to have bummer moments. That’s not the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image