If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment. — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me. — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Music from jah-make-ya..all the love that ive found ..pull over theres a reason why my souls un sound — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
“Watch for me and you will see That I’m present in the songs that children sing.” People” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano. — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
It's crazy because 'Icy Girl' came when I was in a dark place, but I made it to motivate myself. It was… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Like many musicians, it's my roots in music, playing cover songs. I've done probably a lot more covers than the average person… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Even though I haven't released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don't feel I have been completely away… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
“They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would… — Charlotte Alington Barnard Copy Share Image
My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
There's a lot of one-hit wonders and a lot of come-and-go artists and even the labels give up on you after a… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Well, each artist has something special about them. And I try to find whats best in them and find a song that… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me. — Brynn Cartelli Copy Share Image
“You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you.” — Julian Barbour Copy Share Image
I consider myself a part-time worker when it comes to the piano, but you need to play regularly to stay sharp. — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
It's been a real journey for me, in my career, of wanting to be seen as a musician. — Raye Copy Share Image
I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't… — Ghostface Killah Copy Share Image
I have a history, and I am proud of my legacy as a songwriter, all of the songs that I've brought forth… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and… — Jeff Lynne Copy Share Image
My mom's favorite song ever is 'Imagine' because it came out around when she arrived in England. — Himesh Patel Copy Share Image
My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
