That awkward moment when you know the full lyrics of over 100 songs, but cant remember 25 biology definitions — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic. — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people. — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people. — L.Joe Copy Share Image
With Martha Stewart, the power of the brand, the power of television, taught me that if you can marry all those ingredients… — Charles Koppelman Copy Share Image
“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve been a musician my whole life. When I was two, I would sing the theme from Star Wars in my… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Most of our songs were just talking about what we had seen in the ghetto. We weren't thinking, 'Oh, this is going… — DJ Yella Copy Share Image
A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I've never seen Key think about how he was going to act on a song. He just is whoever he is that… — Kenny Beats Copy Share Image
I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get… — Cosimo Matassa Copy Share Image
I wanted people to connect with the lyrics, even if it's in some weird way, because they're all personal. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Music should come from the heart. It should happen. That should be automatic, and if you labour on creating music, it will… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently]. — Moby Copy Share Image
I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
A song becomes good for us when we enjoy the lyrics, it becomes better when we appreciate the tune .. but it… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
And now, performing the hit song Tik and also Tok, by rapper Ke and dollar sign ha, New Directions. -Figgins — Glee Copy Share Image
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished. — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
I collect songs because I want to control what I - what everybody within earshot - listens to. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My problem starts when I see that in a situation when the girl is telling her feeling, say crying or laughing, the… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
It's nice to be respected, but it doesn't really matter. What's important is that if I wasn't in Slayer, it's still the… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
I've really been studying lyrics, printing out lyrics to songs I love and reading them like a letter. — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately. — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I would have to recommend the chorus of 'Lightning Crashes' for just about everyone that needs a little something, a little comeback. — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
13 rages that we go through in which each song is a message of hope through despair. The album is about starting… — Dahvie Vanity Copy Share Image
Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image