I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the… — David Gray Copy Share Image
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a… — Wayne Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I like having the vinyl, but it's not like we're going to sell an umbrella or something. I don't like the idea… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
I've got a song called 'Salt Skin' because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you've got salt crystals on… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music… — Warryn Campbell Copy Share Image
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new… — George Strait Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really… — NAO Copy Share Image
Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs do relate to me, and the lyrics come from a place within myself and things that I've… — Ruel Copy Share Image
'Been That Way' is a song that Timbaland gave me. Actually, the beat is. And then he called me to come out… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, 'Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?' They were like, 'No.… — Darci Lynne Farmer Copy Share Image
My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
In Norway, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is very supportive of each other. If there is anyone new, or a new song… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music;… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I'm a Syd Barrett fan, and early Pink Floyd, and then about two things from the rest of their career. I don't… — Nick Hodgson Copy Share Image
“She let the relaxing song waft over and through her as she lost herself in everything around her: the millions of stars… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
I got the idea for the song 'Bad Company' when I saw a poster for the Jeff Bridges movie, and it reminded… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is… — Walter J. Turner Copy Share Image
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio.… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
