Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
I've heard Jerry do mini concerts while driving, especially when the music of The Beatles or a handful of other 'British Invasion'… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
“Dean is still asleep. His clothes are strewn about. The shutters are closed. He never dreams. He’s like a dead musician, like… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Music has always helped me stay creative and grounded because I'm traveling and shooting and trying to understand other people. Music was… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition that I can think of… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I usually like to try to find a title as quickly as I can and work from the title, and then it… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to the rest of the world. I… — Wagner Moura Copy Share Image
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
You can tell if something feels special. But there are so many moving parts involved in making the song a hit. The… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“What about concerts and opera performances? Nowadays these bring him little pleasure [...] These people have no interest in classical music -… — Jiri Weil Copy Share Image
The MTC is known for singing music by great master composers, hymns, American music, Broadway numbers, popular songs, and inspirational music. If… — Mack Wilberg Copy Share Image
As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
Any time I approach a scene, it's not just what's on the page - it's how the camera's going to show or… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“CONCERTS IN TOWN “Summergarden: New Music for New York” The Museum of Modern Art turns to music every summer, hosting a variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
When I first started at 17 in Los Angeles, the hit song was 'Complicated', and everyone wanted me to write a 'Complicated',… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
A good song is a nice set of chords and some good lyrics; a great song is a song that reinvents itself… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
I was lucky to be in a household where whatever I wanted to do was supported and my music was always such… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
My music timeless mind by barbaric and relentless lyric poetic dying for justice in a time that's historic your mindless brain washed… — Jonathan Croft Copy Share Image
An upbeat song, for example, means one thing, but when you hear it with really vibey, mellow ambience around it, suddenly the… — Lights Copy Share Image
I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage,… — George Jones Copy Share Image
I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art.… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
Hen I born in hospital I welcome myself with high notes then in school walked in small shoes in the beat of… — Subi Foa Copy Share Image
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