I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“Whenever a noise exceeds our processing abilities—we can’t decipher all the different sound waves hitting our hair cells— the mind . .… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I perform, I simply follow the music, and my heart; everything comes from me in a very natural way - it's… — Lang Lang Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
You can only release music so often. You have albums and the whole cycles and everything like that, so covers are a… — Chrissy Costanza Copy Share Image
My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact… — Shakira Copy Share Image
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know?… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design… — Anthony Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think looking at as, "Bands that release their music for free online only make their money from playing live," is not… — Jeff Rosenstock Copy Share Image
“I would often sit in the corner of the room wearing Dad's massive headphones, carefully replaying the records time after time. It… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When you play the old songs, it's awesome and I love it, but it's not work because everyone already knows it and… — Shwayze Copy Share Image
But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club,… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and… — Patterson Hood Copy Share Image
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Music critics have made it quite clear that any composer who ever contributed a four-bar jingle to a film was to be… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“It's sad how things devolve, how if you hear just the early part of Freddie and Veronica's story, this romantic romp between… — Michele Young-Stone Copy Share Image
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people.… — Avicii Copy Share Image
I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that.… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the… — Plato Copy Share Image
You got to look the part. You have to look like all the successful rock bands look. This is what they do.… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
One good thing about a good book or a good film, or maybe even a song, I'm not a musician but I… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
“I thought I could let you go I thought that you could leave and know The time we took would fade But… — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to… — Steve Diggle Copy Share Image
I breathe you in with smoke in the backyard lights. We used to laugh until we choked into the wasted nights. It… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The fourth album encapsulated some remarkable music that was really groundbreaking. We were able to have something like 'When the Levee Breaks,'… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
