The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that commercials can really ruin a song. You know that the person sold the song for a good deal of… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
“I lit a cigarette, using the matches I always carried in my left pocket, the song playing inside hit the backdoor and… — Sanne van Dolder Copy Share Image
Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places,… — Lynette Fromme Copy Share Image
I came in touch with music at an early age. My father was a show band promoter, who took me along as… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It's sad. There's a lot about this industry that a lot of people don't know about and don't find out about. There… — Trevor McNevan Copy Share Image
And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step,… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Today you hear people saying that we invented heavy metal with the song ‘Black Sabbath’ . But I’ve always had a bee… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
We're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They're playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody,… — John Legend Copy Share Image
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High’s answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hate your music, sometimes you don't. Sometimes I listen to the record and it's really hard for me, and other… — Angel Deradoorian Copy Share Image
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen… — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
I don't feel like the album format is sacred anymore, and things have got to change. I don't listen to music in… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
“We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The definition of music used in this course will be as follows: music is the universal language of emotions communicated through intelligently… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you a young kid at that age at that time, and you know that you got talent as far as hip… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and… — Libby Larsen Copy Share Image
Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest.… — Bill Frisell Copy Share Image
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