Ive realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isnt all we needlove is all there is. . . So, I have… — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
I'm just doing my job, which is musician, and people have either an issue with me or they're like, 'She's so inspirational.'… — CMAT Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I usually like to try to find a title as quickly as I can and work from the title, and then it… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it's needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn't… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
Singing a song like 'Your Love Is Killing Me,' people are worried about me. My mother called me, like, 'What's going on… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I was very conceptual about what I was doing; I had the first five albums planned out, and all the songs on… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen… — Jimmy Smith Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters,… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
I think one of my highpoints was definitely well, everything started turning around on Barry Manilow week. I had so much fun… — Diana DeGarmo Copy Share Image
Most of the press I end up doing now asks, "Make a playlist for us... What are your top ten current bands?"… — Memory Tapes Copy Share Image
It's a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I always say 'Purple Rain' is the album I wish I wrote. It's perfectly crafted. I love the use of Linn drums,… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the… — Langhorne Slim Copy Share Image
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“As for the orchestra,' Quinsonnas continued, 'it has fallen very low since his instrument no longer suffices to feed the instrumentalist! Talk… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“And I hear music. The kind you can dance to. The kind that drowns out the rest of the world. Because when… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms… — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
I would like the ambition to go directly into songwriting; individual songs. I want to see what I can do to push… — Radical Face Copy Share Image
I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about… — Keith Emerson Copy Share Image
