I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
I think 'Shade Room,' it's a different me. You know, I think it's more on the lyrical side, talking about my life… — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Part of my big message with all this is that if you are alive, you know all you need to know about… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
When I was in third grade I thought that I was gay cause I could draw, my uncle was and I kept… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song.… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“Song of myself Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18… — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. For a lot of us, it's the one that has the song, 'Spider-Man, Spider-Man,… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I really do want to reiterate how grateful I am for everyone who's ever said a nice word about my music. But… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I've had it for about 13 years, and I don't see any reason to change, I find that the violin just keeps… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or… — Steven Page Copy Share Image
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers?… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. It is alive in me, in the guys, and it is alive… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song… — Grace Gealey Copy Share Image
The process of making music is very therapeutic; it's late at night and I'm wearing headphones a lot of the time, so… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
