The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them,… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon Copy Share Image
I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored.… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad… — Moby Copy Share Image
I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
I wrote a song called 'Four Times A Lady' for Destiny's Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Every record store and record chain has folded; they don't exist. They do not exist. And the only two outlets that would… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
I really moved fast, bro. I don't want a big selection, because I don't want myself in between nobody else's problems, basically.… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with… — Eddy Arnold Copy Share Image
With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres. — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
“The song and the silence in the heart, That in part are prophecies, and in part Are longings wild and vain” — Longfellow Copy Share Image
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21. — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
“On Friday the thirteenth of February 1970, Black Sabbath went on sale. I felt like I’d just been born. But the critics… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, 'We're speed metal,' or 'We're thrash metal.' If it feels good at the end… — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
My mom's an art teacher, so I always had music in the house. She always had records, and I was mesmerized by… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita,… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how… — Bjork Copy Share Image
When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.” — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
