I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song,… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's… — Prince Copy Share Image
I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to… — K'naan Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have… — T.I Copy Share Image
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
There is such an advantage to self-releasing. If you can do it yourself, it's the best way to go. In Europe and… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
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I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm volatile, up-tempo, quick to react and passionate. People often think all that high-energy stuff is just for the stage, but that's… — Keith Flint Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
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The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
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I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
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Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
![“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all…” quote by Prince](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/261/prince-1626_believe_when-i-m-writing-songs-some-days-the-pen_1718202.jpg)
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