I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music. — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,'… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
I like whatever's good. Metal, rock, new or old - I don't care, as long as it does something to my brain. — Chris Reifert Copy Share Image
My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“All great conductors are different. The mediocre ones are more or less the same.” — John Mauceri Copy Share Image
I thought 'Gutterflower' was a really good record, but the album before that got so big that everyone expected us to go… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in… — Vanessa Paradis Copy Share Image
I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that… — Banks Copy Share Image
First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics… — Udo Dirkschneider Copy Share Image
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an… — Tom Wopat Copy Share Image
When people are saying "rock is dead," it's making everything worse. I would like reword and say "rock is underground." We're really… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
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['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
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The Beatles showed with 'Sgt. Pepper's' that you can make an album out of anything, just make it seem like it's connected. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
What I really miss these days in music - is the music. I prefer to listen to melodies and songs, not just… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound… — Michael Franks Copy Share Image
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just… — T-Pain Copy Share Image
My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head… — Bert Murray Copy Share Image
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
“Garbage truck beepers belong in a symphony. Or would that really put the phony in symphony?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
It is important to note that the world changes and that perception of music changes as well. — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
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