I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
“We're a symphony--our limbs and lips and skin making up the instruments, working together to create a beautiful piece of music.” — Julie Cross Copy Share Image
It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?' — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I never really tried to break into the music industry. It was never a big ambition of mine, so it happened organically.… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
I would love to do a track with Will.I.Am. He's always creating amazing songs. I mean, to be honest, Chris Brown has… — Roshon Fegan Copy Share Image
I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
Widespread Panic discovered a couple of my songs and started doin' 'em on the gigs. They'd take a song and expand it… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
“Can we wait just a minute Turn that TV off for a minute Now politics and talkin shit aint really none of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but… — Taraka Larson Copy Share Image
My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in… — Junior Kimbrough Copy Share Image
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I myself identify as British-Nigerian, and I'm also gay, and I'm also a young adult in London making music. All of things… — MNEK Copy Share Image
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Music is something that I've been passionate about. I play the piano and sing, but I always knew that it was never… — Neil Nitin Mukesh Copy Share Image
It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing. — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I… — Roy Eldridge Copy Share Image
I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Being honest and spontaneous is important when making music. But I'm also really logical when I compose. — Stromae Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I don't think the important part of making music is the method used but rather the spirit put into it, so to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I started my whole career on Soundcloud and YouTube and was always looking for recourses to make music. — Bakermat Copy Share Image
Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
I was growing up at a time when you just couldn't go to the movies without hearing immortal film music. And I… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
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