As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are super - insecure and they take forever and they obsess over the minutia and it's really stifling.… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
“Connie goes off the charts and into a whole new realm of music. Suddenly channeling Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s scary voice and skyrocketing… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing,… — Tony Grisoni Copy Share Image
Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books.… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out… — George Michael Copy Share Image
“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but… — Dan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“Bál se hudby, protože s ní potají souvisel, souviselo s ní nejen jeho vědomí, nýbrž i tělo: jako by hlubší smysl hudby… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“The music cuts out and suddenly my breathing sounds really loud. It also seems to amplify his whole nakedness. I stare at… — Sarah Alderson Copy Share Image
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat,… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do… — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his… — Doris Eaton Travis Copy Share Image
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved… — George Antheil Copy Share Image
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's no real music scene in Guyana, but there's a music space. So there's no scene because there's no economy for it,… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
My only real requirement is that I like the projects to be good and I like the people that I work with… — Christopher Lennertz Copy Share Image
I'm not the only one who has ever lost somebody; I'm not the only one who was missing somebody. That's what I… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too… — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
I lived in Italy for quite a while and married an Italian woman. While there, I immersed myself in the complete culture:… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I connect with my fans by performing live or when I meet them in person at malls, on the roads, or anywhere… — KK Copy Share Image
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle… — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
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