Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood... choose one type of music to… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
No - not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That’s usually my only goal - to make it… — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me.… — Brian May Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite.… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I feel like you're being coy if you don't do something and celebrate the 20th or 25th anniversary in some way. Just… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing - and this I think is true of songs but also of movies and books and art… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived… His… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is… — John Haley Sims Copy Share Image
That's what I've always loved about music, that I could go be another guy for two hours. But ultimately it all comes… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham… — Eddie McClintock Copy Share Image
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
> this song explains exactly how I feel. Beauty queen of only eighteen She had some trouble with herself He was always… — Maroon 5 Copy Share Image
You should be able to see the hurt in my eyes, as I slowly die inside, I feel like I'm about to… — Alexis Oden Copy Share Image
The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“I stayed to spy on them. I heard my mother moaning, and crying out for Chris. Then she surprised me. “Momma, where… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
We [My Chemical Romance] didn't push ourselves to that next level. I think we purposefully held ourselves back, feeling like maybe in… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“The Working Song by Breton Braley Oh, we're sick to death of the style of song That's only a sort of a… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and… — Jeremy Jordan Copy Share Image
Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
They're way different, the songs are way more soulful. They open up Patrick's voice a lot more. On the last record, the… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
When I grew up, my dad listened to all that stuff - Neil Young. Floyd. The Doors. The Beatles. Stones. So even… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
In sixth or seventh grade, my teacher assigned me to write and sing a song. I remember sitting at the piano in… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
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