“I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.” KnowsYearsSongFoundSoundMy OwnWrittenHeardWorstDecidedVillageOld You Author:Wyclef Jean
“I don't remember things initially when listening to music. Like, I don't remember where I first heard a song, I don't have nostalgic attachment to a song in that it reminds me of such and such a time or place. I think I probably did experience that somewhat when I was not a full-time, professional musician, but I don't think music works that way for people who are in it constantly.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsRememberSongHeardListeningMusicianAttachmentListening To MusicNostalgic Author:Stephin Merritt
“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.” WorldWayMindFirstsMeanWholeBodyFacesMotherSongSoundVisionDoorsHeardAchieveRocksTalentCarChangedListeningShotsFirst TimePopsIntellectYour BodySingersWhole WorldBrokeLimitationRock N RollBobNew WaysDylanSnaresPop Song Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.” FirstsPlayKidsSongRecordsSawsHeardBobDylan Author:Ketch Secor
“I have a very connected history with Bilal. I heard his demo years ago. I heard all of the magic instantly. He's a master at interpretation of song.” YearsSongMagicHeardMastersYears AgoConnectedInterpretationDemos Author:Q-Tip
“I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff” CharacterKidsSongStuffPiecesHeardDogHip HopRidiculousHipsIdiotHopsDespiseCentsLoatheNew SongsDistasteful Author:Noel Gallagher
“I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've never had that. Life is like a song to me. I just hear everything in music, so I have never once thought "Well, I'm never gonna be able to write again." I've got thousands of songs.” PeopleWritingWellsWholeAbleLife IsSongHeardWhole LifeBlockLife Is LikeWriter's Block Author:Dolly Parton
“I have a real soft spot for flying saucer songs and Frenkenstein songs. When I was a kid the first record I ever really liked was called "The Mummy", and the flip-side was called "The Beat Generation" which Richard Hell later re-wrote as "The Blank Generation". I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard. I didn't like Elvis much then, but I was very young. When I was a kid I used to play that monster all the time!” FirstsRealPlayKidsYoungUsedSongSidesHellRecordsGenerationsHeardBeatsMonstersFlyingSpotsBlankFlipMummyFlying SaucersBeat Generation Author:Tom Verlaine
“It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.” PeopleWorldFirstsStillsIdeasRunningTodaySongVoiceHeardLandFirst TimeTablesHearingJailSixtyGoing To WorkListening To MusicScrapPostmanBustingBusting Out Author:Bob Dylan
“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.” KnowsRealSongStuffBitsRecordsHeardTvsSingingWorkersFolksRadioSingersFantasticIrelandLiverpoolOld Records Author:John Lennon
“When I first heard the song Don't worry - be happy I realized it was exactly the kind of mindless philosophy that Americans would respond to. It would make a great national anthem along with Me first.” FirstsKindPhilosophySongWorryHeardI RealizedMindlessAnthemNational AnthemDon't Worry Be Happy Author:George Carlin
“I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.” WantSometimesPlayLastsSongHeardBandPressesSilentSouthSouth AfricaGigsRefreshing Author:A. R. Rahman
“What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.” IfsTryingWellsSongThreeHeardKingsInternetSixAlbumsAvailableAidsGhostEntitledDrsLutherPirateItunesDr Martin Luther King Author:Bo Burnham
“This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.” YearsFirstsSongHeardFirst TimeAlbumsTunes Author:Etta James
“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.” WritingFirstsLongWantedSongFoundEasyMy OwnWrittenHeardSingingFolksRadioMelodyJimmyIntegratingWriting Songs Author:Mickey Newbury
“DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.” WayArtDifferentBigsSongPartyHeardHavensListeningCreatingCrowdsCraftsPresentingJust ListenDjsNew SongsPlaylists Author:TyDi
“I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.” IfsThinkingWantMayCountrySongLinesHeardFansListeningMusic IsGood ThingsRoundsGenreFloridaGeorgiaCruisePandoraGeorge Jones Author:Scotty McCreery
“I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.” MadeSoulUseSongGenerationsHeardInfluenceDangerousPositionStonesMy SoulMy TimeContributionDependentGossipRollingMy GenerationRolling StonesBeing MyselfJagger Author:Marianne Faithfull
“I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to give music everything I had in me. I knew it was a chance I couldn't miss. The funny thing is I never saw my music video when it aired during the Super Bowl because as soon as I heard my song start I was in tears for the next 10 minutes! The most amazing thing that came out of all of this, however, was the support that had developed online. Without the people that came back day after day to vote for me, I'd be nowhere, and I really owe it all to them.” PeopleThinkingGivingTwoSongNextChanceSleepSupportSawsHeardMinutesMissingTearsMonthsVoteVideoOnlineBowlsFunny ThingsAmazing ThingsSuper BowlMost AmazingTwo MonthsVote For Me Author:Kina Grannis
“I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.” PeopleWantSongRealizingDifferencesCompassionFocusHeardTreats Author:Joshua Radin
“I really like narrative songs, but I wonder if that's a thing for some people. Once they've heard the story, do they really need to hear the story again?” PeopleIfsNeedsStoriesSongWonderHeardNarrative Author:Craig Finn
“I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.” WantGivingYearsStillsFeelingsRememberSongFeltHeardUniversalGive MeFamiliarSubconsciousRemember WhenWombGospel MusicGospel Songs Author:M. Ward
“I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensPlaySongSeeingHeardFansTerribleMathBarsPercentagesRatiosHardcoreNew SongsOld Song Author:Regina Spektor
“I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there's the Internet and that people can share home-made recordings, I think a lot of the songs do get to be heard, even if it's not the best quality, or there's clinking glasses or it's just piano and voice, people can at least hear the song.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMadeFactsHomeSongVoiceQualityHeardShareHavensInternetGlassesPiano Author:Regina Spektor
“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"” FeelsFirstsLooksI CanImportantUsedSongCan DoMillionsHeardRocksListeningBandSingingFirst TimeBottomRadioHearingMelodyWowTeensNerdListening To MusicBassOutputFoliageMachetesOldies Author:Kelly Hogan
“The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.” SongHeardLove YouCoupleLike Something Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station.” KnowsEnoughPlayRunningSongCoursesInterestHeardWallOne DayNormalProgramEarsRadioFinishedTunesStationsApartmentWashingRadio StationsPique Author:Nick Lowe
“It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.” FeelsDoeDoneSongComedyHeardMinutesCoupleApproachHappeningsYeahStudiosScreensMaterialismCaptureSignals80sJuvenile Author:Margaret Cho
“When I heard We Are the World do a techno version of one of my songs, I didn't know the word techno, but I said, "That percussion is astounding, will you help me do a piece?" Nobody said, "Techno isn't allowed for you."” KnowsWorldSaidHelpingSongPiecesHeardVersionsHelp MeTechnoPercussion Author:Linda Perhacs
“I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSongSunRecordsHeardHavensBandStaringReally Awesome Author:Justin Vernon
“It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.” FeelsSongHeard Author:Greg Saunier
“Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.” LongRememberSongHouseBitsSoundRecordsHeardFrontsSittingStartingCandleClicheVolvo Author:Luke Wood
“I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.” PeopleIfsLongStillsEnoughSongRealizingRecordsWrittenHeardShameExcited Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I loved both [Bob] Seger and the Eagles, knowing why they didn't play some of the songs I wanted to hear. But at the same time, they covered all the big bases, and the stuff that most people had heard. But they definitely had a bunch of album cuts that I wanted to hear that they didn't get around to.” PeoplePlayBigsWantedSongStuffKnowingCuttingHeardBasesAlbumsBunchCoveredBobEagles Author:Toby Keith
“I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.” SongViewsWrittenHeardPoint Of ViewStepmothers Author:LeAnn Rimes
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.” WayDifferentSongMillionsHeardDifferent Ways Author:Dan Mangan
“It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.” LongSongHeardRadioMultiple Author:PJ Harvey
“The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.” KnowsFirstsRememberNightSongHeardCrazyFirst TimeEarsThirtyJailElevenMillsMeek Author:PJ Harvey
“I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.” SongHeardVersionsKaraoke Author:Rachael Yamagata
“I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?” KnowsSongWaitingHeardCopying Author:Petra Haden
“If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.” IfsSongGirlStuffGenerationsHeardArgumentRadioImpressionSnowNarrativeConfusedValleysYellowNoveltyComedicValley Girl Author:Dweezil Zappa