The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa. — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
In some ways, writing music is an art because so much of it is instinctive and sort of below consciousness, and lyric… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him. — Rachel Bilson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done. — Steve Porcaro Copy Share Image
When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's… — Dom Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
“-I'll play you a song. Blake flexed his fingers and concentrated harder on the cardboard, moving his hands methodically over it's surface.… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and… — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect… — William Clark Green Copy Share Image
One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album,… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don't think albums are the way to go. — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I can't listen to anything with lyrics, because it's too distracting. — Katy Wix Copy Share Image
Early on, I tried to sing, but sustaining a note was something I wasn't comfortable with. So I tried to get off… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
They didn't know how my heart woke to a range and measure of song I hadn't known. — Hilda Doolittle (1886_1961 Copy Share Image
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
In an arena, with Girls Aloud, it's a big production and you don't have time to talk to the crowd about the… — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
I think it's all about the music you listen to along the way. For me, my parents always played Motown music and… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band. — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult. Very, very difficult. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I use the songwriting as medicine to kind of help me summarize how I'm feeling so that I can get past it. — John Popper Copy Share Image
Where I fit genre-wise, it's hard to tell. It's a fickle wind. But I have to believe there's always going to be… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm proud of having a girlfriend; it just doesn't have anything to do with my music. — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image