I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff. — Jim James Copy Share Image
We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular. — Pepa Copy Share Image
I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
My sister loved country music. My mother loved Spanish music. And my dad was into big band music and jazz. — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's… — Marilou Copy Share Image
I make pop music, but I do it on my own terms. I'll never play the game, so to speak, just for… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we… — Vaughn Monroe Copy Share Image
It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music… — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Listen to the melody and the feel of the singer, and try to get inside the character of the guy who's singing… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“If they want to come for you, they will come, and it doesn't matter what you read or what you failed to… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
As a musician or composer, whenever I am recording a song I imagine myself sitting beside my piano and singing the song… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
My brother has a tendency to get quite lyrical when he writes music; he gets so romantic, it's borderline. I make it… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
When making a music video, it becomes quite difficult to find a director who can puts all your words into pictures and… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce… — JaVale McGee Copy Share Image
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
With Rahman, I worked on 'The Humma Song.' It is a song that I have loved since I was a child and… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
When I get inspired, I give out free music. If you look at my track record from the beginning, that's always what… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I always struggled going against the grain of how pop music should be structured and the seriousness with which people approach writing… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going… — Ashley Monroe Copy Share Image
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
People who are into house music are very similar to me. When I say that, I mean there is a heavy gay… — Doechii Copy Share Image
I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in...… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I'm on a diet. It's very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It's working out - I've gained fifteen pounds! — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music. — Diplo Copy Share Image
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
You probably became a musicians because you're into it so stay that way. Don't believe that someone else has the golden ticket… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
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