I have damaged nerve endings on the right side, so my piano style comes from designing stuff I can play with my… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
My advice for someone just learning the ukulele would be to have fun with it and not take anything too seriously. Some… — Grace VanderWaal Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
The lyrics just come out, and I don't know where from. I'm an incredible failure in relationships. I think there's a romantic… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I got into alternative rock in the early 80s, bands like Husker Du and The Replacements. Bob Mould's playing was a huge… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
“Anyways, the guys try to be cool. They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing - you… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's,… — Flume Copy Share Image
I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or… — John Corabi Copy Share Image
We didn't like the way that our 'Behind the Music' came out at all, to say the least, and so it made… — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
When I reissue these Minimal Wave Record songs, I also re-master them. With Oppenheimer Analysis, it turned out that the band still… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do music, but it took me a long time to figure out how to exactly do… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Karl Agell sang for our Blind album which was our second best selling record. He's a great guy and as a matter… — Reed Mullin Copy Share Image
Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
Where Miles Davis can make you feel things.That's what I'm looking for from young guys. I'm looking for somebody who not just… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I think record stores play a huge part in discovering new music. When I was growing up I would spend hours going… — Joe Principe Copy Share Image
I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before… — Pamela Des Barres Copy Share Image
My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played… — Johnny Griffin Copy Share Image
I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
It's nice to know that you're worth something and music really does put that kind of light back into you. Well, it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
“Wenner’s unabashed idol worship had so often embarrassed them—starfucker, they grumbled behind his back—but now here he was with an actual Beatle.… — Joe Hagan Copy Share Image
I moved to Naples, Florida, and by 15 I was into punk: Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, Operation Ivy. Along with the classic… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and… — Marc Anthony Copy Share Image
For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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