You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I think you're going on a journey with the character, so you have to be present for each and every scene,… — Camilla Luddington Copy Share Image
If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory.… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
“So,' he said. 'What do you think of it?' She twisted towards the fire and watched the flames behind the blackened furnace… — Claire Merle Copy Share Image
When I was on the set, I was not talking on the phone or reading anything else. I was just reading things,… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you… — Flume Copy Share Image
I'm still not really planning on pursuing a music career. I like to make music because it's fun to do and it… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Lots of these songs I hadn't performed, but I've always wanted to. These are songs that I wanted to get in my… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
“And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest or the one that sells the most copies.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
One of my favourite things in life is an early night between freshly washed sheets. There's a ritual. It involves relaxing spray… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“Synchronicity? The entire universe vibrates to synchronicity, if only we can hear the rich symphony. The first strains of music, created at… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band… — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with a girl who knows me better. Fell for the woman just when I met her. Took my sweet… — Juxtaposition Copy Share Image
But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take… — Alice Smith Copy Share Image
I think people like listening to what I call trippy music but maybe next year it will be something else. I still… — Juicy J Copy Share Image
A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean,… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
I was a kid, I loved music, that was our social thing. That's what we bonded on. That's what my Saturday nights… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
On stage, that for me is a space I really love to be in. It's a time to really get drawn into… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“I drifted on through the midst of this passionate music and motion, across many a glen, from ridge to ridge; often halting… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I like to be in the zone. I like being in the studio with the artists, with the producers, with the musicians,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone -… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image