Favorite song Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a band.”

— Patrick Stump

When we arrive at the studio, we put the kettle on, have a cup of tea, say, 'How's the family? You still got that…

— Ian Gillan

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever…

— Flea

“Downstairs, I could hear the return of a long-lost sound: Amy making breakfast. Banging wooden cupboards (rump-thump!), rattling containers of tin and glass (ding-ring!),…

— Gillian Flynn

“I played a few songs over and over, trying to understand them. They didn't have an immediate effect. This was a new species of…

— Peter Bognanni

“I want to drum up interest for instruments that are played by beating them with sticks.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Whenever the sixth tune on the flip side of the LP, “Atlanta Blues,” began, she would grab one of Tengo’s body parts and praise…

— Haruki Murakami

“I keep a band of music in my ante-room," he said once to her. "It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me…

— Henry James

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to…

— Avril Lavigne

“The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.”

— Brenda Sutton Rose

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

— DJ /rupture

I think I've always had this thing where it's music first.

— Bonobo