Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that... either the titles… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Wrecking civilization one story at a time." "That hardest day in any cancer patient's life is the day after he's cured." "Some… — T. Fox Dunham Copy Share Image
When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
I think jazz is the foundation for a lot of great musicians, and then after that, you know, it's this broad expression… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
“The video for “Sweet Child o’ Mine” was on MTV when we set off in July, but on the first few dates… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard'… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“White and blue White and blue , You loved it then, i loved it too, Your eyes and your voice, I loved… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying?... Dig it, they’re telling it like it is. They know what’s happening in… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
That's how a lot of Tame Impala songs start out - as ideas for songs I could potentially give to someone else.… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
Gospel music was very prevalent in my house. My mother also loved Nat King Cole. That was some of the first music… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done… — Lady Saw Copy Share Image
I would have liked to have traded places with Jimi Hendrix for a day just to have that kind of mind in… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works. I'm trying to get the record that I made… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build… — Diplo Copy Share Image
My grandmother used to have horses, so she'd get the sled out, have all us kids ride. We'd play music together. My… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
![“We were on a tour, and there were some chord formations that were tough for me to play when I was a kid...it had become apparent that there was some stuff I wanted to do that [would require me] to learn how to do that. So I wrote the song and used some of these chord formations so I would have to…” quote by Jorma Kaukonen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/jorma-kaukonen-31193_chords_we-were-on-a-tour-and-there-were-some-ch_2969472.jpg)
![“Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton John's opening main title for The Road to El Dorado, I played guitars on Shrek for Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, I co-produced "I Can See Clearly Now" for…” quote by Danny Jacob](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/danny-jacob-65582_animated_marylata-elton-introduced-me-to-hans-zim_12635.jpg)
