I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
OUR HEART IS THE BEAT THAT WE GO BY, OUR BRAIN HAS THE LYRICS THAT TO WITH IT, AND OUR BODY HAS… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
We built a foundation called the 3HO Foundation: a Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization of people. The first song I sang was, "We… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Although it's pretty rare that I'll get completed, finished lyrics to a song and feel like it's done, and then decide that… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people feel pressure with their major label sophomore CD and having to follow up their first record… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
I have loved music so much from when I was little, and I don't know whether it was because I saw my… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
“I wish there was a song called “Nguyen and Ari,” a little ditty about a hardworking Vietnamese girl who helps her parents… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I think if there's ever been a time we need music more, it's now. For our kids, it teaches you to take… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
My favorite song of ours has to be 'Feel Special.' It was a little different than our bright songs that talk about… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar;… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something,… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
“I never sit and fill a journal with lyrics. Most of the time I'm trying to write a feeling, not a story.… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
My parents bought this baby grand piano, which was in my living room, that I owe a lot to. I would just… — Borns Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The only thing I think about is doing something where I'm the only person making all the decisions - I think that… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me,… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
I can't sleep babe. I can't think babe. I can't live babe. Without you in my life. I can't go on babe.… — R Kelly Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Children should be encouraged to search out in nature the objects that illustrate Bible teachings, and to trace in the Bible the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days,… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I've never invested myself properly in trying to write stories. When I write lyrics, mostly I write each sentence separately on an… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. I love music because it's really just - I tried to… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night -… — Chris Daughtry Copy Share Image
