I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
There's songs you listen to at really heavy times, and you associate those songs with being depressed. 'English Rose' by The Jam,… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some… — Carla Azar Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Sublime is a hodgepodge of all types of bands I have been into since I was a kid. Not like I mix… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy… — Jonathan Davis Copy Share Image
You have to like a song, take in all you can and sync it. Be it a sad song or a dappakuthu… — KK Copy Share Image
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned with the healing process of a song and music in general. I think that's why I make music -… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I write anywhere. I'm always banging around on the dashboard. Whatever I'm doing. I can make music out of anything. Whenever a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel… — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
A lot of the music I was inspired by growing up - college rock, DIY, what they used to call indie rock… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When you write songs, you try to tap into something that isn't straightforward in your head. Whatever you're feeling most strongly about… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
“Music can inspire people to wake up and say, ‘Somebody’s lying.’ This is the point I’d like to make with my music,”… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
With 'Start With Me,' I sent it to Gunna and he sent it right back. I didn't have to ask him. If… — Roddy Ricch Copy Share Image
I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo Copy Share Image
I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli Copy Share Image
I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image