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When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do. -- Enya
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. -- Moby
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. -- Eric Clapton
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. -- Joni Mitchell
Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members. -- St. Vincent
Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did. -- Woody Herman
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. -- Al Kooper
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song. -- Joni Mitchell
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge. -- Rufus Wainwright
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common. -- Klaus Schulze
Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor. -- Leo Kottke
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years. -- Feist
I felt like there was a void in the marketplace in girl groups. Musically, there is something truly exciting about harmonies in one song. A group has more to offer. -- Kelly Rowland
Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf. -- Kevin Shields
I like to challenge myself, to see if I can actually write a pop album that people can connect with lyrically. Musically, it's very accessible - or, at least, I hope so. -- Chaz Bundick
Musically, I think I change music like I change clothes! What I listen to on a day to day basis is really contingent upon my mood and what's going on in my life. -- Demetria McKinney
Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess. -- Zola Jesus
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. -- Tori Amos
Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up. -- Pharrell Williams
Musically, I have my project, '30058.' It's seven songs, like an EP or mixtape, but I call it a soundtrack because I feel like my life is a movie, and all the songs are moments in my life. -- Shameik Moore
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism. -- St. Lucia
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music." -- Moby
I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people. -- David Gilmour
Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time. -- Bradley Joseph
When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album. -- Pharrell Williams
Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person. -- Chamillionaire
Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it. -- Five for Fighting
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding. -- Jeff Mathews
Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore. -- Chris Eigeman
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men. -- Austin Mahone
I try to tell a story musically in a song. -- Barry White
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing. -- Gary Clark, Jr.
But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals. -- Chico Hamilton
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather. -- Jeff Buckley
Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful. -- Dave Grohl
I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically. -- Two Chainz
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically. -- Alan Rickman
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically. -- Eric Clapton
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now. -- Van Morrison
Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can. -- Kenny G
I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically. -- Marilyn Manson
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are. -- Yoko Ono
It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am. -- Michael Buble
Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league. -- Eric Clapton
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry. -- Cara Delevingne
The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet. -- Paul Anka
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. -- Ed Sheeran
I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was. -- Steve Vai
I always had influences musically with punk, and then growing up, I dyed my hair every color. I did the dip-dye blue, before anybody was dip-dyeing their hair. And streaks of pinks and purples and whatnot. -- Leigh Lezark
My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. -- Keri Hilson
At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically. -- Jimmy Chamberlin
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world. -- John Burnside
I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Wintertime for me is a time when I do a lot of my writing in the studio. It's a time I enjoy. And it's very reflective and a very calming time of the year. Throughout the year I gather a lot of musical inspirations, and this is where I bring them to the studio and see what will evolve musically. -- Enya
I love stretching myself musically. -- Liz Phair
I know I'm not musically talented, -- Rob Mariano
I'm just a restless soul musically. -- Joe Louis Walker
There are no musically untalented people. -- Igor Levit
I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004. -- Hari Kondabolu
See deep enough, and you see musically. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven. -- Mandy Patinkin
Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people. -- Pharrell Williams
The first time I performed musically, I threw up. -- Marilyn Manson
What I really like doing is taking risks, musically. -- Casey Abrams
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. -- Tom Araya
I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots -- Smokey Robinson
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically. -- Dave Grohl
I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically. -- Queen Latifah
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. -- David Zippel
You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically. -- Tove Styrke
Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes. -- Kool Keith
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally. -- Erica Schroeder
I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments. -- Edward Norton
I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. -- Joel Murray
The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something. -- Brenda Lee
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I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. -- Ray Charles
Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing. -- Jonny Lang
In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating. -- Ray Still
You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off. -- Zooey Deschanel
The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons. -- Andrew W.K.
You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead. -- John Martyn
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. -- Debra Wilson
I think a lot of what I do musically is about juxtaposition and contrast. -- Sarah Barthel
I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically. -- Gavin DeGraw
I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically -- Gavin DeGraw
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work. -- James Vincent McMorrow
I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long. -- Joe Nichols
Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically. -- Frank Zappa
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound. -- Stephen Mallinder
I'm careful what I put out there into the universe, musically. I don't take it lightly. -- Gloria Estefan
I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams. -- Dave Koz
You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically. -- Jimmy Page
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way. -- Valerie June
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. -- Zubin Mehta
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. -- Placido Domingo
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. -- Neville Marriner
I am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears. -- Kelly Blatz
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. -- Sonny Rollins
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound. -- Chet Faker
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo, -- Nomi Prins
I try to listen to stuff that makes me happy for other reasons, rather than being musically inspiring. -- Anna Meredith
I feel like I've met most people I look up to musically. I just want to meet Chef. -- Zach Condon
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically. -- Serj Tankian
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could. -- Kate Bush
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. -- Anais Nin
I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not. -- Colin Stetson
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. -- Ed Sheeran
I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love. -- Donnie Simpson
I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically. -- Donald Fagen
I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically. -- Gavin DeGraw
I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically -- Gavin DeGraw
Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government. -- Ian Svenonius
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there. -- Ace Frehley
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically. -- Vincent Van Gogh
If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically. -- Grimes
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically. -- Robert Plant

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