I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music. — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
“So now, I sit beneath the banyan tree With humility, devotion, and tranquillity To listen, learn, and experience The songs of the… — Vinod Varghese Antony Copy Share Image
Elvis does his own singing and selects his own songs for his records. Hundreds of songs are submitted to him. I don't… — Colonel Tom Parker Copy Share Image
'Last Friday Night'... I just heard a song, and I just liked Katy Perry ever since. — Bam Adebayo Copy Share Image
I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the… — Chris McCormack Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music. — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in — Brian May Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People, despite having the common interest in our band, might not be friends before meeting at a show. It's great bringing families… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I know this guy is a musician so I hope he can play us a tune that could get us the hell… — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get… — Flea Copy Share Image
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
Jack White has just done a song for Coca-Cola. End of. He ceases to be in the club. And he looks like… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
We can judge the pulse of a song and match it with our listeners' sensibilities. I think we do this extremely well,… — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
“Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We love music, and when it's good we flip. And we want to get to the core of why it's good. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Music prevents many people from going over the edge. Music is a pacifier. Music is medicinal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something. — Ian Williams Copy Share Image
I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road. — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music. — Anonymous Copy Share Image