It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. — John Legend Copy Share Image
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations. — Deana Carter Copy Share Image
I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Even on tour, where I perform songs from 'City Of Black And White,' I still do songs from 'Nothing Left To Lose.'… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
I'm glad that life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you. — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
“Oh ... My twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And I give you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire. — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different. — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You. — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Both my mother and my grandmother aspired to be opera singers. And they studied it. — Jihae Copy Share Image
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the… — John Oates Copy Share Image
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time. — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
Every time I record a song and I really like it, I like giving my audience something to look forward to -… — GloRilla Copy Share Image
