My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous. — James Bay Copy Share Image
I've never gone to a singer with a song and said 'why don't you try this?' or tried to get a record… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics.… — Kim Tae-hyung Copy Share Image
I don't have a set working style. Some lyrics come really slow, others come in 10 minutes while I'm watching basketball. They're… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
“I don’t think the Cure liked us. I think they resented us in some way, because we’d managed to stay cool, credible,… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“In the silence I felt it all unravelling, the audience waking with the dream unfinished, all my work ruined, wasted. And all… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen… — Richard Betts Copy Share Image
By the time a show gets on, I've written these songs and heard them over and over and over again. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing… — Sia Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
For any band to stay together for 10 years proves that something is correct with the chemistry involved in all four of us. — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie. — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved. — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I Love You 3000' is a song that originally was inspired by The Avengers. I created a Chinese version with my own… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what… — Gorilla Zoe Copy Share Image
There has got to be a lot of unreleased video out there, live footage and whatnot. There's always going to be something… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Records and numbers are important, but there's nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music. — Jin Copy Share Image
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
![“Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.” quote by Boyd K. Packer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/5b9/boyd-k-packer-1854_atmosphere_music-can-set-an-atmosphere-of-worship-w_3181569.png)
