There's a lot of women now with a whole lot of style but they are not necessarily song stylists. Some of their… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I remember when I first got my cello when I was 8 years old. I remember the room it was in and… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money,… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I'd never deliberately do that, but that's a personal choice I'm inspired… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
Michael came home and asked, Would you like to write a song with me? I got this idea for a title called… — Annette O'Toole Copy Share Image
I do remember all of the songs of my childhood and they helped us to cope with being orphans. But the memories… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“When he hears how songs are now shared and downloaded, Knight is equally unimpressed. "You're using your computers, your thousand-dollar machines, to… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial… — Bryan White Copy Share Image
When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality.… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Some people think that all you do is record, and it's not the case. You take on other projects as well, and… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's… — Halsey Copy Share Image
There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
Follow me and do exactly what the song says, smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people, and drink, and jump… — Eminem Copy Share Image
“There are special neurological hazards, “disorders of skill,” that may affect professional musicians. The normal association of intellectual and emotional may break… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Say an A&R person wants me to do this type of song because they feel it is going to work on the… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to… — Manika Copy Share Image
We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to… — Keren Woodward Copy Share Image
I always think it's more interesting to leave the context of those songs a little vague. Like, all these songs come from… — Alex G Copy Share Image
Once you've made a record, you don't need to make it again. It's done, and it's out there forever, a moment in… — John Oates Copy Share Image
I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make… — Estelle Copy Share Image
A lot of sessions I do the artist isn't even there! It'll be just me and the producer cutting drums to a… — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer.… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
![“The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.” quote by PJ Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46d/pj-harvey-3601_crazy_the-first-song-i-heard-from-me-was-meek_198080.jpg)
