When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
“When you play, Eva, I feel hopeful. They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got… — John Otway Copy Share Image
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself,… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
“And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass!… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then… — caitlin moran Copy Share Image
“There was a strange exciting smell in the air - the smell of wine, cigar smoke, and perfume, mingled with the scent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always,… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I… — El-P Copy Share Image
I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean,… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
“As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. ‘Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music… — Santigold Copy Share Image
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and… — Kevin Rollins Copy Share Image
The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the… — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards.… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
The first time I heard 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,' I did not know music could sound like that. The vocal arrangement… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
