It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! — Miyavi Copy Share Image
The most rewarding experience as a musician is to know that I moved people personally. — Lari White Copy Share Image
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I practised for some two months for the 'Kaanta Laaga' video. I gave my best to the song and the success is… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways. — Lisa O'Hare Copy Share Image
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious… — Christopher Copy Share Image
My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous. I didn't stop writing after the first album came out and everything… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
I still maintain the fact that when I write songs, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't think about it pragmatically.… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got… — Clare Grogan Copy Share Image
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music. — August Alsina Copy Share Image
We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same. — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. — Hazel Scott Copy Share Image
The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all. — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly -… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
Don’t see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it… — Karen White Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct. — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my… — Slash Copy Share Image
I had to be honest in my songwriting for it to be where it is, and it's always scary wondering if anyone… — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Knowing a person is like music. What attracts us is their melody and as we get to know who they are, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing. — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
