Always feeling secondary and just being a voice rather than known as the song writer and artist... it's been a challenge to… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ... Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles.… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for… — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
That's the good thing about music: you can sing about people's lives in its stages and feelings. Some songs can put something… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new… — Margo Timmins Copy Share Image
When we recorded the song I Just Can't Stop Loving You, my vocal range is a little higher than Michael's range. He… — Siedah Garrett Copy Share Image
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
If you listen to Too Short over the years, that's me - I'm not hitting every key or every drum or singing… — Too Short Copy Share Image
“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to learn the piano, but because I travel so much, I can never get any consistency of lessons.… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me… — Becky Stark Copy Share Image
From the time an Aiel boy becomes a man he will not sing anything but battle chants, or their dirge for the… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Astrud Gilberto sang an old bossa nova song. “Take me to Aruanda,” she sang. I closed my eyes, and the clatter of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts… — K'naan Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Every Christmas Eve, we used to listen to evensong live from King's College chapel in Cambridge, and I'm almost ashamed to admit… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I learned the songs and played the gigs, and then they called me about a month later. They told me they were… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
There is a little bit of a head vs. heart kind of battle that happens sometimes with the song. There's the goose… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
