My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
When you're faced with challenges in any industry, but especially the music industry, it tests you in a lot of ways, both… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I've loved Alfred Cortot's playing from an early age, and I never tire of hearing his recordings, particularly Chopin and Schumann from… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music… — Lorde Copy Share Image
I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
“There existed very long saxophones from years ago. The player sat on their chair like a cellist; that same sort of feeling… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
We were just going for growth, bigger sound, just a spectrum of people. More global. That's how we decided to do a… — Taboo Copy Share Image
I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen… — Lauv Copy Share Image
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
To be honest, the search for a label was really weird, because some of the labels that you wouldn't expect to care… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
We just found that in 2016, if you announce a record, and it's coming out in three months, and you're just giving… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song. — Feist Copy Share Image
When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument… — Plato Copy Share Image
We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Metal shows are all hate, like, Im going to fuck you up in the mosh pit. Electronic shows are all peace and… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Oh damn there playing bag pipes on TV here comes the tears again. Certain music, songs and sounds rip me apart PTSD… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When I go on and listen to the stuff on the websites, I can't tell, it all sounds like the same band,… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
I can't forgotten u, I always think of u, U is like a love song in my head, U are my love… — Raheem Nicholas Copy Share Image
'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with… — Demetrius Shipp, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect. — Sir Arthur Sullivan Copy Share Image
We were always complete opposite characters - that's what made N-Dubz - and we publically said that, and we said it in… — Tulisa Copy Share Image
“Some pieces of music, I like them so much, I wonder why they have to end, and if I had the strength,… — Amy Gordon Copy Share Image
Singing soothes me. It is something that I have always been doing and will continue to do. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
Have you listened to Eyes Without a Face by Billy Idol? Perfectly good pop song ruined by the worst bridge of all… — John Cho Copy Share Image
If I'm in the shower sometimes I'll blurt out some lyrics to whatever song's in my head that day. It's a lot… — Scott Rogowsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of difficult to describe sound as positive, but I feel like music has feeling. — Koffee Copy Share Image
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I can't sing a love song Like the way it's meant to be Well, I guess I'm not that good anymore But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way. — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
