Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart. — Leif Garrett Copy Share Image
I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting. — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics. — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
There was a substantial vinyl collection in my home, and my mom played piano. We, the children, were enrolled in piano lessons… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker. — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
A song like 'Shade of Yellow,' it was like, me turning on my Imogen Heap brain. I was listening to a lot… — Griff Copy Share Image
All I want out of music is to think to myself, this could be in a makeover montage. — Guy Branum Copy Share Image
I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my 'Umbrella' song. Those songs… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
My mom's always had her hands full, literally juggling babies. So I think growing up made me just kind of get on… — Griff Copy Share Image
Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually… — Adam Selzer Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out.… — George Harrison Copy Share Image