I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively - and… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
As I look back, I understand what [the record company] was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter… — George Benson Copy Share Image
There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace… — Plato Copy Share Image
I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct… — Dennis Brown Copy Share Image
When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
On 'Earth Song' I was the military guy that would come out of a tank that was used during the show. It… — Cris Judd Copy Share Image
I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life,… — Dave Lombardo Copy Share Image
The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band… — Jimmy Dean Copy Share Image
I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever.… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
“When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: ‘Demo… — Kirk Lake Copy Share Image
When we were trying to get 'Jersey Boys' off the ground, I'd get, 'The Four Seasons? Who's going to care? There's the… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
To ensure that future generations have the opportunity to make a living from the creation of music, it is critical that we… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns.… — Warren Littlefield Copy Share Image
I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them.… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
First off, we came from hardcore bands, and, in a lot of ways, we still see ourselves as a hardcore band. That… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
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