It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and… — Marc Anthony Copy Share Image
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
“Wenner’s unabashed idol worship had so often embarrassed them—starfucker, they grumbled behind his back—but now here he was with an actual Beatle.… — Joe Hagan Copy Share Image
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
It's nice to know that you're worth something and music really does put that kind of light back into you. Well, it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
When I was 6, 7 years old, I was raised on all the old-school stuff. My momma used to play oldies in… — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write… — Jeff Barry Copy Share Image
“I want to create moonglasses, and then write a song called, "I Wear My Moonglasses at Noon." Hopefully, with a little lunar… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
If you can use songs as a tool, vehicle for empathy and a deeper understanding of how people are feeling and how… — Finneas Copy Share Image
“The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to… — Dimitris Mita Copy Share Image
As much as heartbreak music might be therapeutic, we all want love and long for that feeling. So if a song can… — Ella Mai Copy Share Image
In the long-run I think we lost some of our audience because of noise. I don't think people were ready for it,… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono Copy Share Image
“I have personally spoken to loved ones on the other side about the process of dying through the song oracle. My Mom… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“The consumer is constantly screaming "Give me what I want!", while inside they are really thinking "Inspire me", even if they aren't… — Jason Timothy Copy Share Image
I just believed in 1979 that prog rock was finished. I just saw the handwriting on the wall. And I believed that… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
That this city has second lines - it's something I'm proud of. When the bands come back from the cemetery, they'll play… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
“In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure… — Tai Odunsi Copy Share Image
I find it interesting when I look back at songs and it's what I've been thinking and feeling for the past two… — Elena Tonra Copy Share Image
A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image