The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When I am performing live, I walk into a room, and I just try to get a feel for the vibe, and… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
In your eyes the light the heat in your eyes I am complete in your eyes I see the doorway to a… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I've always thought, "I could probably write one of these country songs and send them to these places and make up this… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Perhaps the bands emerging nowadays don't have the right context around them to help them grow. We were born at the right… — Joselo Rangel Copy Share Image
I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Well, you can't throw heavy, analytical, thought-provoking songs at people 24/7. It's been my experience over the last 20 years that on… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and… — Vashti Bunyan Copy Share Image
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it.… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
“Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out. Funny the way… — Dave Matthews Band Copy Share Image
When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done -… — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I know a lot of actors who live with kind of a soundtrack in their lives, even to go to the market.… — John Cena Copy Share Image
I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But you've really got… — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like,… — Common Copy Share Image
A kid now can practically record a song or edit a short film on his way to school. I think that will… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To… — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticide grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In Shanghai, I saw great contrasts. On one street there would be impressive shops selling copies of the latest word in glamorous… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I had so much to consider before I joined Led Zeppelin. It wasn't a question of who had the best prospects, but… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and… — Thia Megia Copy Share Image
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people.… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was very young and going to the Fillmore East and watching three of my favorite bands in one… — David Bryan Copy Share Image
