My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called 'My Blue… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional...transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like… — Bill Mallonee Copy Share Image
Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
My favorite song to write was a song called "Always" I wrote it about a girl who, at the time, I had… — Riker Lynch Copy Share Image
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience.… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at… — Will Champlin Copy Share Image
If you're trying to get a lot of money and attention and cars and just stuff like that, being in a band… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely… — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
When it comes to vibrato, a lot of people look at their hands when they do it. Which is pretty much of… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
Spotify favors hits. It's very much a meritocracy: It's not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original.… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“Listen! Before you can fully understand the notes, dear boy, you must first understand the space you will place them in. Space… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music...… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
So this is the last song I sing to you It's time I be a man and I face the truth. Lies… — Chester See Copy Share Image
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has… — Moby Copy Share Image
Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them.… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our… — Karen Carpenter Copy Share Image
I got into songwriting because I'm not very good at communicating sometimes, just my true words, so music was always my way… — LIZ Copy Share Image
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across,… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
