The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time.' — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep… — Lady G Copy Share Image
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
I like to think of myself as a pure rebel; A radical thinker on a musical level. — D-Nice Copy Share Image
'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack. — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's… — Sia Copy Share Image
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
“if you sing a sad song loud enough, the boys on those torpedo boats can hear you under the sea.” — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
There's no formula for choosing songs. I've beeen lucky over the years. You just hear it and you do it. — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Even on my most angry song, I'm also still saying, 'Thank you for helping me to learn.' I've always wanted to give… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice that there's a certain line in every song sticks out because it reminds you of a person that… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo. — Elton John Copy Share Image
All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
My brother came home from college with a Mountain Goats cassette and I was like, 'What is this?' The lyrics were crazy… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Travis Barker is one of the greatest drummers ever, and all the guys in blink are really good songwriters. — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Black Love' made my mama cry, so this is one of those song songs. When I hear it, it makes my heart… — Masego Copy Share Image
It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well. — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I wanted 'Second Sky' to be my way of recommending truly good music to my audience that I think is worthy of… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation. — Anna Ternheim Copy Share Image
I can't really choose how I'm going to connect to music. I find it just has to hit a wave, and just… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
