The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
I won't forget those kind of things, but I just want to write them down and look at them. It's almost like… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately… — Jonathan Coulton Copy Share Image
I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I… — Morten Harket Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot… — Claire Legrand Copy Share Image
Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
“And our safe word?" "Wonderwall." Lindsey turned around and cast Luc a sardonic look. " Your safe word is the name of… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“I find it impossible, therefore, to imagine a growing and maturing church or individual Christian doing without the Psalms. And that is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things about getting to act is that you dive into these different lives and you get to take… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people,… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
“I played a few rough versions of songs while Chad sat by, looking lost. Mia came in wearing black leather pants and… — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke… — Jack White Copy Share Image
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the… — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always,… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
