When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
For me, the fun part is riffs, and making the riffs is what I... that's my world. I'm born for that. And… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold; where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song… — JRR Tolkien Copy Share Image
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever. — Finneas Copy Share Image
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is that, well, here's what I think about songwriters and songs. Sometimes people sit down and say, "I gotta… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
People listen to music when they are sad and it relaxes their minds. People listen to music when they are extremely happy… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the… — Fab Moretti Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
If you put a song on SoundCloud for free and it blows up, you'll drop it as a single and maybe get… — Young De Copy Share Image
I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with… — Kaki King Copy Share Image
[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself. — Dexter Holland Copy Share Image
I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane. — Doja Cat Copy Share Image
I was like a wonder kid at Uptown. The first record I produced sold two million copies - and I'd only produced… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
“The first thing on your to do list every weekend should always be to turn up the fucking music.” — Lou Brutus Copy Share Image
I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
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I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand. — Emma Anderson Copy Share Image
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The music was soft and we just looked kind of like your average two people walking down the street. So really the… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock &… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the… — Fred Hammond Copy Share Image
You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. — Mark White Copy Share Image
Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith weren't polite. They were against the grain. And that's what we want our music to be: rude, aggressive... like… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
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