Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world?… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my… — Bernie Marsden Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My amp setup is the same that Ive had for years. Its a Fender Princeton side-by-side with a Fender Tweed Deluxe. Thats… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly...… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
Only MUSIC can let US sing, Only MUSIC can make OUR feet DANCE,,, and Only MUSIC can let OUR mind REMINISCE back… — Mhargs Abuda Copy Share Image
“A Love of the Old What couple danced to this record’s gay tune? Who enjoyed this story long a go told? Two… — Elizabeth Novak Copy Share Image
There are times where I'm just open to receive songs. I sit down, and a jam will just come out, all at… — Benji Hughes Copy Share Image
The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much… — Colin Hay Copy Share Image
Yo, this is my story, this is my song, And to them rudypoots don't attempt to try this at home, It's just… — Outkast Copy Share Image
Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music...… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I was lucky to start playing guitar in the Eighties when so many great players were around to inspire me, like Yngwie… — Chuck Schuldiner Copy Share Image
I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform… — Jose Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for 'The Stage' we basically run through a… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but… — Raheem Devaughn Copy Share Image
Somebody told me once it takes an Americana song five minutes to say what a country song says in three - so… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started playing piano when I was eight, and I went on to study piano in school, so I have a background… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
When we work together as a group we don't contribute individually as much as I do when I'm working on my solos.… — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice would… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to… — Lianne La Havas Copy Share Image
“The presence in the living room called to her, summoning her in a hundred voices and none, a great dissonant harmony alien… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Lovin' you has made my life so beautiful And every day of my life is filled with lovin' you Lovin' you I… — Minnie Riperton Copy Share Image
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when… — Ned Block Copy Share Image