“Speaking is like conducting an orchestra; but instead of music, you are directing emotions.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession… — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice,… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
I just didn't really relate to Kurt Cobain. There was nothing very glamorous about him. — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place.… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job,… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad… — Astro Copy Share Image
“A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voice… — Natsumi Mukai Copy Share Image
I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the… — E-40 Copy Share Image
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it. — Ysabella Brave Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo. — Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira Copy Share Image
I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies. — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life. — Tyga Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet? — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
People get trapped sometimes and they don't feel they have a voice. And if you can in some way help someone by… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
When you are happy you enjoy music but when you are sad you understand the lyrics — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one. — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Japanese orchestras are generally playing at quite a high level on the first day of rehearsal, but they don't improve very much… — Joe Hisaishi Copy Share Image
Back when I started getting popular when it came to my singing, I never wanted to just settle for that. I wanted… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Yours To Hold-Skillet Song will always mean so much to me :) the only thing ill ever have of yours :) — Talyiah Copy Share Image
When you sit and write a song, sit and write the best song you can write, just try and write it and… — Eric Roberson Copy Share Image
If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it. — Benji Madden Copy Share Image