I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist… — Banks Copy Share Image
It's not always possible to play a song exactly as it is on the album. That's also something that I really don't… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In terms of stage presence for me, I'm influenced by a myriad of things. A lot of punk performers, people like Dave… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar and when we formed the band; we all said, 'Who's the worst at guitar?' It was obviously me,… — Calum Hood Copy Share Image
I had a really bad blushing problem when I was younger. The first time I ever performed was in an English class.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the Lord just takes blessed people because they've filled their purpose early. Everyone plays their own song. They sing their story… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Daily dawns another day; I must up, to make my way. Though I dress and drink and eat, Move my fingers and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people hear sing-songy melodies, they think the lyrics will be nice, too. I guess there's a depressing or psychotic side to… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly teenager, and… — Ray Connolly Copy Share Image
“Among musical instruments, only the first—the human voice—is more universal than the harmonica. This is appropriate, given that the mouth organ is… — Kim Field Copy Share Image
Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our "belief waves" ripple through the quantum… — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
This is how I feel about everything that's out of your control: once you make a record, it's not yours anymore. There's… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
We lived above the church, and I remember there was no air conditioning in the church. I would shut all the windows… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I write music, I know a lot of artists like Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran tend to write from personal experience.… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a… — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
I wanted to make mini features. And there was a wonderful creative freedom; not necessarily copying the lyrics, but just trying to… — Russell Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
“Consider the words to "How Firm A Foundation," one of the songs she chose for the original hymnal: "When through the deep… — Angela Eschler Copy Share Image
We look at the video tapes of our shows to find out what went wrong. We always study how we look, what… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
“How do you become a person? Usually, instead of trying to get a job, I listen to music on YouTube, instead of… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play cello, but in school, when I said that, my friend laughed at me, and she was doing… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“I don’t have anything bad to say about the guy they hired to replace me, Ronnie James Dio, who’d previously been with… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image