My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I've always been aware that probably writing songs - stupid songs or, at least, theatrical songs - is, I dunno, I certainly… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how… — B.J. The Chicago Kid Copy Share Image
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to… — Pia Toscano Copy Share Image
I sit and I write automatically. I don't really try to write. My subconscious mind takes over and writes the songs for… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
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It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely… — Christoph Wolff Copy Share Image
I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
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Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
On the song 'Step,' the chorus is Ezra is singing into my laptop with the laptop microphone, and you can hear the… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
She was sittin' all alone over on the tailgate Tan legs swingin' by a Georgia plate I was lookin' for her boyfriend… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want.… — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
I think [game music] is something that should last with the player. It's interesting because it can't just be some random music,… — Yasunori Mitsuda Copy Share Image
I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then… — Win Butler Copy Share Image