I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to… — Ari Lennox Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
Songs are snapshots of what you’re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.… — Melissa Ferrick Copy Share Image
See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz,… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
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“This Boston voice squeaking out its song. The yellow light goes out the window on the stubs of windy grass and black… — J.P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes… — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
A year before 'Frampton Comes Alive!' we had released the studio version of 'Show Me The Way' as a single - it… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
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“Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done… — Donna Quesada Copy Share Image
The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
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Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Soft Sounds' was really hard for me. I was petrified of the 'sophomore slump' so I created an environment to best combat… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Fans can expect all the hype to be true with 'Born This Way' and with the album. I'm very perceptive of what… — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
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I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who… — Marcia Strassman Copy Share Image
Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words,… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I like albums where all the songs are written in one go. If you're trying to create the number-one album with the… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair.… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
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