For me, if Public Enemy doesn't exist, Cypress Hill definitely doesn't exist, because we were directly influenced and inspired by them. From… — B-Real Copy Share Image
I have developed a visionary modern lyric, and, for it, an idiom in which I can write lyrically, colloquially, and dramatically. My… — Rosemary Tonks Copy Share Image
I had a hoodie business, but I was secretly making music. So it wasn't anything serious until I dropped my first song,… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing… — Matt Nathanson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once… — David Means Copy Share Image
I have Nineties music oozing out of my pores. What made rock & roll back then is that it was uncensored. It… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that,… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that,… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking… — James Young Copy Share Image
I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
Mostly, isolation allows me to go through a period where I really concentrate and get in a flow. Sometimes the whole process… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on… — John Green Copy Share Image
When we first started off, we made our record and then we played our first show. There was a bit of an… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n'… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
I came up with the album name 'Please Don't Be Dead' because I felt like we'd lost our way as a society… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being.… — Shura Copy Share Image
I am thankful to my parents for letting me pursue music as a career. No one in my family is a musician,… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Me and my three younger siblings, we sang together in grandma's church, and I was in the Chicago Children's Choir in high… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Sometimes to get in the "musical mood," I'll just turn on music really loud, or go drive around and listen to music,… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
“Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. 'A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if… — P.K. Hrezo Copy Share Image
The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
“if you’d only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this.… — Greg Laswell Copy Share Image
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