If you're shocked that Britney was lip-syncing at her concert and want your money back, life may continue to be hard for… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize that my voice is a lot worse than my problem. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When someone ask you to listen to a song, it's because the lyrics means everything they're trying to say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song about a relationship ending, what you're really doing is honoring how much that person meant to you. — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very… — Flume Copy Share Image
I had an epiphany where I realised that there are song titles everywhere - in advertising, in conversations with people at the… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
When I made dog sweaters, as goofy as that was, I made this product, and people could buy it, and I got… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms… — Vusi Mahlasela Copy Share Image
If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I love my mom. I think my mom is responsible for me loving music and being in music because she subjected it… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good,… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall. — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song. Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong. — Beauty And The Beast Copy Share Image
'Singing Saw' was exactly seeing through my eyes; 'City Music' let me write from somebody else's perspective, somebody living in New York. — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are… — Jack Yellen Copy Share Image
I think I'll always make music that sounds different from what is current, but I doubt that it'll sound consistently the same… — Miguel Copy Share Image
Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I suspect a singing teacher would have a fit with my diction. They'd probably think I was doing a very bad job. — Elizabeth Fraser Copy Share Image
The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I would only listen to certain things, like a lot of teenagers do. But the Tragically Hip is a ribbon that's been… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Heaven would be a comfy armchair….You’d get a great, private phonograph, and all of eternity to listen to your life’s melody. You… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington.… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image