Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.'… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
For listeners, the song 'Kehne ko jashn-e-baharaa hai' looks a very easy number. In fact, it was a challenge to sing the… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
I continue to evolve as a human, I see things differently everyday so it's sure my songs will continue to change and… — Marilou Copy Share Image
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Tom Petty's 'You Got Lucky,' where the whole theme is, 'You're lucky to be with me.' I… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
That's the thing about Taylor's music. When one of her songs lands in a specific place in your life, it feels like… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
“Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van’s art. For many in the audience it… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where… — Beck Copy Share Image
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger… — Jean-Jacques Nattiez Copy Share Image
The Beatles had a huge impact on me. I did 'Strawberry Fields Forever', and we worked it out in an open tuning.… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
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I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed that we've progressed as little as we have sometimes. I think the template that every band looks at is The… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...]… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
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I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a… — Jack Irons Copy Share Image
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
Uncle Dave Macon was a great balladeer and banjo player from the early part of the 19th century... He would take a… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I think that video content is really important for artists these days. Not necessarily for MTV, but to really just get your… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
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“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
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