I have always struggled with expressing emotion, I used to think I was a very hard person but music has shown me… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I… — Terry Kath Copy Share Image
To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Music gives people the ability to dream, to leave their troubles behind for a moment and experience something beautiful. You create dreams… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to… — Eugene Hutz Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine.… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I started, the music I would be drawn to would be heavy metal and new wave like Black Sabbath - things… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Some of songs are autobiographical and some of it is more telling a story from someone else's perspective. It's healthy for me… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
“If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
I don't sit down and say, 'Today I will write a song.' I know a lot of people that do that, but… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
One tries to be uplifting in one's songs, but occasionally a cloud appears in the sky and one's demeanor leads to songs… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let… — David Ellefson Copy Share Image
Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in… — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself,… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
“She took great pains, and it irritated and tortured her, this getting a song right. In the end, no one might be… — Joanne Horniman Copy Share Image
“Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by… — Henry Cowell Copy Share Image
![“[...] I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.” quote by Paul Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d25/paul-stanley-9031_ed-sullivan_i-saw-the-beatles-on-the-ed-sullivan-sho_3106501.jpg)
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