You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
“Guns N’ Roses was no longer a band, but the band—our band. These are my fucking boys—they’re willing to fight through anything.… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote… — Adele Copy Share Image
I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
“A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions. But that phrase should not be considered… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not tell anyone,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
“Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right… — Cindi Madsen Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years… — JoJo Copy Share Image
I just want to make good music, and as long as I'm happy with it, the charting isn't that important to me.… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
I wanted to hear what she was saying. I wanted to smell that burnt midnight again, I wanted to feel that wind.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every… — Dan Hawkins Copy Share Image
I’m sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My theory on Manchester and why it produces the bands it does is that because the world is willing to listen to… — Jimi Goodwin Copy Share Image
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I want to seize my is. And like a bird I sing hallelujah into the air. And my song belongs to no… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
All my songs depict a slice of life and how youngsters perceive it. My song 'Blue Eyes' is exactly the kind of… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I was a very young kid, the first music that really turned me on was a new wave of British heavy… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
“When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the… — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
The moment I read the lyrics, I question if I'll be able to play it before my mom and sister. I've often… — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
My songwriting process is based on a formula: Color, tone, words. When I hear production, I initially identify the color that resonates… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
“In a phone interview in 1994, Celia Powell stressed two sentiments: music was her father’s life; it was the driving force of… — Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr Copy Share Image
Listen to the late Isaac Hayes covering 'Walk on By' by Burt Bacharach or Mayfield singing The Carpenters' vanilla-seeming 'We've Only Just… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
'Music Is Worth Living For' is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It's also me pleading with myself to recognize… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock… — James Iha Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
