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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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 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
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
This is not the end, this is not the beginning. Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision. But you listen… — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
“I squeeze her and she laughs and looks up at me, "Jules, you incorrigible rake," she scolds, and then gives me a… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
“We shall sing and be merry. Troy had agreed to sing my song 'Girl, Come Hither and We Shall Dither." "Uh, not… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk… — Jack Kerouac 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
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
[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in.… — Jose James Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . .… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City… — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year.… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to… — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
Marvin Gaye was a killer drummer. I think he just played during the soundchecks and he'd have another guy sing his parts… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic… — Melora Hardin Copy Share Image
My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
We actually added an extra electric guitar to beef up 'Need You Now', but we haven't changed any of this 'Own The… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Other music exists to heal wounds; but the tango when sung and played is for the purpose of opening them, for the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Some genres of rock 'n' roll attract more of the party animals. I guess the Stones partied a bit. I think The… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I am no friend of the modern so-called 'black metal' culture. It is a tasteless, lowbrow parody of Norwegian black metal circa… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when… — Natalia Tena Copy Share Image
I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I teach songwriting a lot, and I always tell my students, 'You gotta write the little songs sometimes to get to the… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Country music especially can get very formulaic - you know, you have to have your verses and a bridge and a chorus,… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
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