One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident. — Natasha Hamilton Copy Share Image
My mom took my sister and I to music classes. We used to hate practising as kids but my grandma used to… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
If my mother didn't have a natural gift to be a singer, I think she would have been a comedian. That's nice… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I've tried to maintain a certain bit of originality in that I don't want to necessarily sing like a soulful gospel singer… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He's the greatest trumpet player to… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened -… — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
“Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
Music for me is an emotional necessity. It's therapy. It's what I live and breathe. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
Cause you I know love to turn you on Girl let's do it to your favorite song, yeah With the candles lit,… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
They be like smoove, what? can you teach me how to dougie? You know why? cause all th bitches love me — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
It's hard not to go back and look at my songwriting catalog and go, 'Look, there are 600 to 700 songs here.' — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is… — A.C. Newman Copy Share Image
I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it. — Jackson Guthy Copy Share Image
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
'Good Life' was my gold-medal song and is what I sing when I need to get focused and keep calm. It also… — Victoria Arlen Copy Share Image
A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song. — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself. — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I want to sing a song, but I don't know how to start it...but I know it's going to end with 'I… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid of the dark Look inside Grab your heart Let it shine If it's dark outside Shine your light” — Will.i.am Copy Share Image
I'm 33...before AC/DC I've played in a lot of bands in Australia. You're never too old to rock and roll. — Bon Scott Copy Share Image