Copying Quote by Susanna Hoffs

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into…

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted…

— Shura

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a…

— Corbin Bleu

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was…

— Kina Grannis

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

— Aubrie Sellers

I've learned a lot about being in control of your career - and that being positive and believing in yourself goes a very long…

— Nina Nesbitt

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

— Jay Sean

The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and…

— Too Short

There is something about performing my own music, and other people's music, that gives me pleasure. I think I learn more by doing that…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an…

— Erik Hassle

I know some people really try to avoid music when they're writing and recording, but I am very inspired by so many different musicians,…

— Devendra Banhart