What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer. — Sheena Easton Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better. — Steve Turre Copy Share Image
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood… — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image
If I'm feeling down, I'll play stuff to get charged up - even better to hear heavier stuff. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
One thing that brings everyone together are the lyrics. Even if the people singing don't know the Japanese words, they still sing… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
With the 'Born This Way' album, generally we said, how do we find strategic partners that can help us with our vision?… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I remember being really young - being 13 or 14 - when I first was really excited about punk rock as an… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
To get a feel for the right-hand picking technique, you have to let the pick 'fall' from string to string as if… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Yeah, just ask me how things are coming along, You can tell me that you never heard none of my songs, Long… — Drake Copy Share Image
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them.… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“Kissing him feels familiar but also new, a song they haven’t played on the radio in a really long time.” — Katie Cotugno Copy Share Image
Getting hand full of FRIENDSHIP BANDS doesn't mean they are all true friends Just get a band to hearts its enough to… — Ejaz D RoxTar Copy Share Image
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I don't have to say I'm going to make a song. A song is always there. I just have to open my… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
'Kudi Maga' is a pub-style song, but the lyrics are really nice and the beats are catchy. — Arjun Janya Copy Share Image
The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire… — John Scofield Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is like music, you cannot appreciate if you wont listen to it.” — Clandistine Canoy Copy Share Image
It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,'… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
I mean there's no other feeling than when you hear a great hip-hop song. You feel good. If you lose that as… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song. — Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Copy Share Image
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb Copy Share Image
When you're working on a record, I find it's better not to share details during that process. Because, until it's done, it… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music. — Maud Welzen Copy Share Image
My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is. — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
