For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song. — Passenger Copy Share Image
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
“Success in the music industry isn’t something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I'm touring… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Songwriting is something that's very daunting until you have your first successful song, I think. — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and… — Mitski Copy Share Image
My mom is a great artist and she inspired me when I was young to sketch and draw, but I never took… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
It's a love song I wrote., you can share with the person you like.And hopefully they will understand how you feel. It''s… — Ream Copy Share Image
“-so that for these few moments it actually seems that Ruprecht could be right, that everything, or at least the small corner… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Metallica's 'black' album, when I heard that and I heard Lars' playing, and I just was, like, you know, 'Wow! Something really… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
“I plugged my ear buds into my phone and put Keane on shuffle. Those boys always knew how to speak to my… — Natasha Boyd Copy Share Image
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano. — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
I love ballads. I'm not into fast songs. I love to put my heart and all of my feelings into a song. — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrumentàin good order. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned,… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
“I don’t know a thing about jazz.” “That’s okay.” He pulled me toward the door and opened it. “You know music. Jazz… — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
10 million albums sold I aint gotta brag, Disrespect my girl or my kids and get a bodybag. — The Game Copy Share Image
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. — Little Richard Copy Share Image
We straddle this world of pop music and this world of...I don't even know what it is, but we're very much in… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
