Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for… — Lemmy Copy Share Image
I turned on 'One Tree Hill,' heard the opening song, and went, 'I got to know whose voice that is.' — Brett Young Copy Share Image
All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Since reuniting in 2002, Mission of Burma has become the triumphant story of a band that time forgot. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this."… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Once you sing a song, it's your song. Once a music director entrusts you with a song, it's your song. So I… — KK Copy Share Image
When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big. — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now. — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
Sometimes I dream song ideas. I write a song in my dream, the melody and everything. But then sometimes I can't remember… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways. — Donovan Copy Share Image
If someone tells you to listen to a song, listen. Its their way of telling you how they really feel. — Unkown Copy Share Image
I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Be my secret. Be my joy. Be a miracle to me." From the song MIRACLE TO ME, from the album LIONS, by… — The Black Crowes Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that,… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. — Kathy Valentine Copy Share Image
When you start a band like we did - we started with pretty pop-punk roots - the whole plan is to get… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself. — Syd Copy Share Image
In subliminal ways, every song I do, there's something in it that I can attach to hip-hop directly. — Everlast Copy Share Image
The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I have tons of Telecasters but also about 50 Les Pauls, six or seven SGs, and a bunch of Gretsches. — John 5 Copy Share Image
Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games. — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy, — Etta James Copy Share Image
I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
“Because music expresses all the things people can’t say, but are impossible to keep quiet.” — Vi Keeland Copy Share Image
You're trying not to think about turning around, you're trying not to get lost in the sound but that song is always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people in your life are like those songs in your playlist that you always skip but can never delete! — Anonymous Copy Share Image