Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. — Aaron Neville Copy Share Image
This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her. — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
What inspired me was the love of making music and having no one around and just saying, 'I've gotta figure this out.' — Russ Copy Share Image
“Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
I feel like you're able to be your most creative in private environments, and not a studio where an A&R person is… — Finneas Copy Share Image
Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off… — Santiago Durango Copy Share Image
I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“You have to know a lot of songs to cook the way our ancestors cooked. The songs are like clocks with spells.… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to… — Nate Mendel Copy Share Image
