“Music does not merely sound: It enchants. To listen to music is to give our souls to its power. We do not… — Peter Kalkavage Copy Share Image
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what? — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose. — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band. — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!” — Gangai Victor Copy Share Image
I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
My musical selections are a reflection of how I grew up. Because, back then, you could see Miles Davis and Ravi Shankar… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I don't like when bands write a record that sounds like the one they just did and they just keep doing that.… — 3 Doors Down Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
“Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“listening to music renews the heart precisely for this reason: it plumbs the gravity of sorrow until it finds the point of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music. — Arturo Sandoval Copy Share Image
I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day. — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
There are words I don't want to say in my music. Some will say: 'Don't forget me.' I prefer: 'Always remember me.'… — Redfoo Copy Share Image
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Woke up on the right side of the bed What's up with this Prince song inside my head? — Owl City Copy Share Image
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“I’m not the flowering of a song, nor the flow of melody I am the echo of the shattering sound of my… — Rabisankar Bal Copy Share Image
“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your… — Etta James Copy Share Image
[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice. — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be… — Adele Copy Share Image
From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't. — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
Tell me I'm your National Anthem. Ooh, yeah, baby, bow down. Making me so wow, wow. Tell me I'm your National Anthem.… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I think the work process' - composers do not get enough time to make a good song. That's the one thing which… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us. — Lou Gramm Copy Share Image
It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image