Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
Of course, we haven't spoke to anybody at Island Records about this yet, but you should go ahead and print this, because… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends. — Sade Adu Copy Share Image
You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
On 'Utopia,' I mix sick beats with ethereal elements while trying to keep the focus very much on the songwriting. If you… — Kerli Copy Share Image
As an ardent follower of the Blues it wasn't the done thing to own up to liking The Beatles but secretly I… — David Essex Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was… — Clairo Copy Share Image
I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you notice in my own films the blending of songs is distinct. They narrate stories and scenes. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Me, l'm a weird person, so my music is kind of weird, but l want my music to be weird. — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you sing someone else's song over and over again or songs that have been given to you, you're afraid to… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.' — Jessica Jung Copy Share Image
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't. — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot. — Grimes Copy Share Image
The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night"… — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to… — Jerry Cantrell Copy Share Image
I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the… — Chuck Brown Copy Share Image
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew… — Vesta Williams Copy Share Image
My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
You always want your significant other to think that you hung the moon, but when you're working in music you also want… — Stacey King Copy Share Image
My parents had a lot of movie soundtracks that they brought back from the States. So very early on I heard film… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
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