I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
When you're recording a ninth studio album, you can't fail. You don't really have any fears. You just make the best record… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
As a youngster when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“He laughs and turns up the music so that I can hear it in the back. The speakers blast out: ‘Streets like… — Harry Shaw Copy Share Image
It would have been better if the first album sold well, the second sold better and the third really took off. Maybe… — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
Everybody's family plays them music, and my grandma used to play a lot of old-school stuff, like Ron Isley and Gladys Knight.… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working… — B.J. The Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to… — Laurent Brancowitz Copy Share Image
Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St.… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I think the '60s was a great time for music, especially for rock and roll. It was the era of The Beatles,… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Every album I've done pretty much has been not in a pleasant, quote-unquote, environment - it's freezing cold, or it was somebody's… — Jack White Copy Share Image
It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
