My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was… — Slash Copy Share Image
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The number one success in music supervision is when you can satisfy everybody on every level, creatively and in terms of the… — Liza Richardson Copy Share Image
I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound.… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Anyone would be embarrassed of what they did at 15 or 16. I listen back to that first record, and I'm like,… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the game itself is pretty much a melody and I am there to provide the lyrics. You want… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I… — Kip Winger Copy Share Image
No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
... I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a… — Randy Rhoads Copy Share Image
The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
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I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
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The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
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But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to… — Buddy Rich Copy Share Image
When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon… — Sarah Vaughan Copy Share Image
Don't try and tell me Green Day are punk. They're not, they're plonk and they're bandwagoning on something they didn't come up… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Brian Hyland just happened to be playing in our town and that song [ "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"] was… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
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You hear a new song, it's your favourite Pretty soon you'll be changing the station And all your old shoes are looking… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
Instead of taking the 'I'm cool, I hope you adore me' path (with my music), I chose the path of how to… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
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![“We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/van-morrison-1192_feels_we-re-with-robbie-robertson-jazz-musicia_376618.jpg)
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