“NEVER BE AFRAID TO DART AROUND IN PUBLIC, HUMMING THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE THEME SONG. —T-SHIRT” — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have. — Martina McBride Copy Share Image
It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the… — Lights Copy Share Image
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
There are certain records from the 80s and early 90s that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go… — Beck Copy Share Image
I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
I think that ultimately, when you create music that is proper music, then it becomes fundamental and anyone can relate to it… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
These days the whole 'American Idol' and 'The X Factor' and all that stuff has opened up doors for songwriters like me.… — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
Any musician in any band - for a really good band - you know your part in the band. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French. — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The one thing I got right was that I already looked like a punk when punk arrived. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Everything I write tends to come from my own personal experiences, or from people close to me that I'm singing about. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff,… — Justin Deeley Copy Share Image
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about stuff that's happened, but I don't want to be someone who's only writing… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love',… — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
My first real experience with worship, I was 19. I was playing drums in the church band at a church in Phoenix,… — Israel Houghton Copy Share Image
As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Everybody deserves a piece of where they live, in some type of fashion. Music is just my way of preserving that. — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music. — Mika Copy Share Image
Yes, there have been musicians on both sides of my family going back several generations. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam. — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
