I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“My father was quiet ' she told him. 'My mother was not. They were polar opposites but you'd think they were a… — Amalie Howard Copy Share Image
Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
If you create something, it really should mean something more than that to you. I had to grow into all of this… — Jlin Copy Share Image
'9 to 5,' that little song, that little story, just won't ever end. Just like 'I Will Always Love You,' it just… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
We didn't want to be tied to that damn teenybopper market. We tried to convince our record company that we could do… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
When we were doing 'Live at Benaroya,' the song 'I Will' was hard to get through. I've always get a big lump… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
The world has changed a lot since I started making records.I used to go into a studio and there were songs there,… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano… — Ian Holloway Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy… — Chris Frantz Copy Share Image
“From the moment the five of us leaned into our first song, we could all hear and feel that the fit was… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
There was a recording studio in my school, and I knew this kid who had a key, so I'd write lyrics in… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
“When we sing, I am one of many, and the individual me evaporates. I am one of 23 university choir members. Not… — Laura Kelly Copy Share Image
“Music psychology has been busy looking at the ways in which music might be similar to language, but Richman, Tannen, and others… — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
I definitely don't wanna be known as the 'Up Down' guy. I love singing that song, I love that song, but yeah,… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one… — Nick Hodgson Copy Share Image
It's bizarre: sometimes I go through periods where I really want to put a song up online, and sometimes I'm sort of… — George Blagden Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple… — Graham Russell Copy Share Image
When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
Instead of speaking about Real Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against a team in… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image