I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can… — Della Reese Copy Share Image
I really think there are two genres of music: good music and bad music. And I'm just trying to be on the… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Even within the context of the alternative scene I was a part of, within punk and hardcore and the alt scene, there… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It's a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music… — Hiromi Uehara Copy Share Image
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct. — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing. — Scott Hutchison Copy Share Image
There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
If a song is being written for a woman, there should be a woman in the room collaborating. — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer. — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I write about everything that happens in my life, whether or not the songs actually are released or not. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Life is the symphony you make it. It can be simple and little or grand and worth listening and seeing again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or… — David Klass Copy Share Image
“each person that listened to the music heard something different; it just depended on what they were going through in their own… — Jamie Magee Copy Share Image
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place. — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
There are things in life that I enjoyed before music, so I'm just taking advantage of those things now that I can. — Trinidad James Copy Share Image
“Music laps at the shores of the intellect; only those with no firm ground under their feet can live for music. —… — Joshua Cohen Copy Share Image
I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money.… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
“And yet, life as an autonomous woman is not a song. It’s a scream, a war; it’s a daily struggle against the… — Nina George Copy Share Image
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
