Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Jazz translates the moment into a sense of inspiration for not only the musicians but for the listeners. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I always felt each instrumental and vocal inflection had to be special... I'd spend almost as much time on those as I'd… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. — Charlie Watts Copy Share Image
I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the… — Kyle Copy Share Image
I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity… — James Paxton Copy Share Image
You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them. — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very… — Polly Samson Copy Share Image
With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.” — Paul Strathern Copy Share Image
Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound… — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining. — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day. — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as… — Robert Earl Keen Copy Share Image
I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
I don't think you can reach the same highs working in a band as you can on your own. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal. — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
My fingers are crossed for 'Dekh Lena.' I believe it has shaped very beautifully and also visually the song looks fabulous. — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it. — John Debney Copy Share Image
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