'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Your youth is the most important thing you will ever have. It's when you will connect to music like a primal urge,… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
Francois Truffaut's 'The Soft Skin' starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Its complicated its hard to know how people are talking about the music, passing it around, buying it, and ripping it or… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
“Faith, thought Eszter . . . is not a matter of believing something, but believing that somehow things could be different; in… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder,… — Rex Orange County Copy Share Image
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don't know how he finds it, but… — J Hus Copy Share Image
That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying idea. Especially as I write… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that.… — Joshua Radin Copy Share Image
There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or… — Bill Kreutzmann Copy Share Image
I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
West Coast hip hop was the sound of my neighbourhood. It was something I could relate to because it had a sound… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I put a lot of work into my mixtapes, and I want everybody to understand I am doing this genuinely. I don't… — Tink Copy Share Image
I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
The first time you have a little success, some good feedback, you start imagining having a career, or being a professional musician.… — Erik Wiegand Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do… — Moby Copy Share Image
I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd… — Guy Berryman Copy Share Image
When it comes to music, I am a dictator. Making a Dirty Projectors record come to life is like making a movie;… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams;… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well.… — James Righton Copy Share Image
We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
The time has come The lights are on high I wanna know I never thought life was passing us by And the… — Iration Copy Share Image
Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
