I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics.… — Kim Tae-hyung Copy Share Image
By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing… — Sia Copy Share Image
I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music… — Dessa Darling Copy Share Image
For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
You know, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, and my parents had spent a lifetime not making any noise, and I was… — Simu Liu Copy Share Image
“THERE are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown… — Robert William Chambers Copy Share Image
For any band to stay together for 10 years proves that something is correct with the chemistry involved in all four of us. — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved. — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bottom line is what we record is what we use. Once we feel we've got a good album, we stop at… — Malcolm Young Copy Share Image
“The awful longing in his eyes, are changed forever On their rocky waste of island by their imagination Of his imagination of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage. — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective. — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. — Halsey Copy Share Image
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
If the snares are tight and the engineer was good and the rhymes are fly then it's good. — Rev. Run Copy Share Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
In maybe third grade, I kept asking my parents for piano lessons, and eventually I got them. It turned out I wasn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together. — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
