I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music,… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize,… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
“Music was not so very different from mathematics. It was all just patterns and sequences. The only difference was that they hung… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's… — Gladys Knight Copy Share Image
I started assisting music composers at 15 in an attempt to run away from studies. But my mom, hailing from a traditional,… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
Rock records. It's the main source of inspiration for people - fans, or musicians, or both - to act out in ways… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
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So that day, in music assembly, the teacher asked who knew the valley song. Your hand shot right up in the air.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I've had international success so whenever you may not have seen me in America, I may have been in Dubai doing something.… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
I've been trying to do this music thing for so long, I kind of got addicted to struggle, the grind, so typically… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
Yeah, I didn't ever think about music as a career. Like, it was never - it's just something like an extracurricular activity… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
Music is how I get free. It's a way to shut the rest of the world down and create your own world… — Gift of Gab Copy Share Image
I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I love music so much and that kind of takes away from the fact that I am missing out on some things.… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Many ask me why I work with debutants, but I always tell them that there's space for every one in the industry,… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
The punk rockers said, 'Learn three chords and form a band.' And we thought, 'Why learn any chords?' We wanted to make… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“In major movies these days, the fine details of music, instrumentation and sound design are lost. This is a shame, and it… — Julius Dobos Copy Share Image
Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder.… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Then why, I asked, is the world so fractured? “Well, you can look at it this way. Would you want the world… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and… — John Cage Copy Share Image
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love?… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Intelligence is what allows us to create forms of governance, cure disease, create art and music, discover, dream and love. Intelligence is… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious aspects of the music to people who know jazz is: How does it feel in the swing?… — Chuck Israels Copy Share Image
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'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
“It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
![“Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits…” quote by Paul Simon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b5c/paul-simon-1703_alternatives_instead-of-thinking-in-terms-of-chords-i_623789.png)
