“Music is old and new, joy and sorrow, celebration and loss, healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are or feel...… — Angelique La Fon-Cox Copy Share Image
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't really think of Dire Straits as a sound, you know. It. just depends on the song, and the stuff we're… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I will always sing, even if I must gather my roses in the very midst of thorns and the longer and sharper… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your… — Ardeth Kapp Copy Share Image
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You've got to put interesting people around you; you've got to work with people who are gonna inspire you to take the… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughing-stock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled. — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way! — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to. — Dan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Posting lyrics on your status hoping that one person will read them and take the hint... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music. — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance. — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music. — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
