Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal.… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs. — Jennifer Holliday Copy Share Image
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything. — Sally Kellerman Copy Share Image
“The nerve-system of many an Urning is the finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the service of the interior personality… — Otto de Joux Copy Share Image
I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And… — Bon Scott Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the… — David Macklovitch Copy Share Image
The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
“We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no… — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Truth Is' with Julia Michaels during our first time working together. The song is about emotions we often think of… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Everyone loves the Beatles, but if you really dig into their music, they were actually speaking on things. When you have such… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd… — Zachary Cole Smith Copy Share Image
It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was hate. I looked around and saw that it was so wrong. I got to go… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
That Awkward moment when your jamming out in your car to your favorite song, and then you look over and someone is… — Kylee Copy Share Image
“Hearing tells you the music is playing. Listening tells you what the song is saying!” — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came from the blues, like me. We understood each other right away because of that. He was a great blues… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.” — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along. — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing. — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Nowadays it seems to me nobody takes trouble about anything, especially writing songs. — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity. — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
A wise woman once told me "you shouldn't have written that song" I now believe her completely. I should've never put that… — Danny Worsnop Copy Share Image
