I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
“Behind every dancer there’s someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor… — Hope Alcocer Copy Share Image
Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll. — Sting Copy Share Image
That's what you join a band for, is to make music. Not to sit around and have five years off. We're not… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time… — Al Hirt Copy Share Image
“It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people… — Eldar Djangirov Copy Share Image
I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“A song is not a tool for changing a human heart in the way that a wrench is a tool for changing… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I think the biggest faults that bands tend to have in terms of drama or breaking up is bands don't learn people's… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
My wife and I went and saw John McLaughlin years ago playing at some club, and it made me feel uncomfortable. It… — Cliff Williams Copy Share Image
Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8. — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins Copy Share Image
Nat was my hero right from the very beginning. My dad brought his music into the house and played it over and… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
When a situation rises just write it into an album. Singing straight, too cold I don't really like my flow, no. — One Republic Copy Share Image
I'm frozen in time, it's more than just you being a dyme I see the other half of me when I look… — Gift of Gab Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am… — Dennis Lloyd Copy Share Image
I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I listened to the Doors and the Eagles and bands like the Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club,… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band. — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent. — Tim Hudson Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has. — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become… — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
My dad conducted the Disneyland band since I was born, and I was around big band music a lot. — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
