Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Future's Pluto is my favorite album of the year. It's so emo. Future is the number one dude I'd love to produce… — Ryan Hemsworth Copy Share Image
“Why is there so much meaningless, waste of time music out there these days? I'm no snob. I know I'm right about… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul… — Frank Stallone Copy Share Image
It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Bands such as LiLiPUT and Essential Logic were just as unorthodox as Gang of Four or Wire, even taking their sounds a… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us,… — Victoria Monet Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, an ethereal haze formed above their heads, and images of the words they sang began to dance in the sky. The… — Farrah Rochon Copy Share Image
I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge,… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might… — Tyga Copy Share Image
You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose.… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I disguise a few things in my songs. You know, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. There are… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter.… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?"… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
“Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
My grandma had a piano at home so I was playing as a kid sometimes. For three years I just wanted to… — Kai Havertz Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
On the Junior Boys' 'When No-one Cares' beats are abandoned altogether, the track's 'endless night' lit only by the dying-star flares and… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey… — Jack Irons Copy Share Image
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time… — Daughn Gibson Copy Share Image
I remember Pavarotti telling me, 'Oh, Neil, after seventy, the voice is going to go.' But I've been lucky. You almost have… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
