“A friend is someone, who knows the song in your heart...and sings it back when you've forgotten the words.” — Ferlysha Junique Copy Share Image
The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The truth is I got rid of 100% of my vinyl in the '90s. All the vinyl I have is re-bought. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week. — Bazzi Copy Share Image
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I don't have a relationship with Yoko. I've tried contacting her many times after John had died. She wouldn't return any of… — May Pang Copy Share Image
I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about… — Barbara Cook Copy Share Image
I disguise a few things in my songs. You know, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. There are… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?"… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sings from a sense of duty or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around… — Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places,… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight. — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better. — Future Copy Share Image
My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success. — Jeremih Copy Share Image
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed. — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Singing is a tricky business so I sort of had to work at ir. But it's also sort of natural. That's my… — Colter Wall Copy Share Image
I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
