When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
One thing I can't do is do anything half-assed. I want to make sure everything is right, that the song is fully… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start.… — Phil Rudd Copy Share Image
In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play… — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
No one has done what we've done. We're the first female band to have a No. 1 record. — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can… — Goapele Copy Share Image
Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
All I can really do is work hard because I love working hard and I love writing songs. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's been neat to find out different writing strategies. I've been in the room with so many different writers. Sometimes, you write… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Those situations were just taking over my entire life. It was fun to write in a way, because it helped me take… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“There's a stranger in a car Driving down your street Acts like he knows who you are Slaps his hand on the… — Marc Cohn Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those… — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear. — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
At first we had a scary image of metal and it was hard to approach other artists. — Yui Mizuno Copy Share Image
When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.' — Limahl Copy Share Image
Home in bed listening to the rain getting ready to order a pizza. Sounds like a song til the last part. — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
No regrets, it's always moving forward and feeling like I did the right things for the right reasons. It's good music with… — Salaam Remi Copy Share Image
Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway. — Vic Fuentes Copy Share Image
“I always thought I’d make a great backup singer. I don’t practice. It’s just pure talent.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Art, specifically music, is a living thing,” he says. “It isn’t just absorbed by the people who hear it, but it absorbs… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made. — Johnny Rivers Copy Share Image
If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra. — Diplo Copy Share Image
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“He has a song,” the man replied. “He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
“The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October... — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I was the last member of the family to get involved on the professional scene, although music has always been with me. — Rebbie Jackson Copy Share Image
My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know… — Joe Copy Share Image
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