There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
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When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life,… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I realize I've really been blessed with you know, with just being able to make great music and that's where it starts… — Ciara Copy Share Image
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through… — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
In a studio situation, I'm able to dig deep and come up with stuff that all the guys think fits the vibe… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
Like as a fan of music, I feel like everything that I listen to influences my writing, whether it's a song where… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
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Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A.… — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever… — Bob Schneider Copy Share Image
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was… — Le1f Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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