“Now a door slams. The kids have rushed out for the last play, the mothers are planning and slamming in kitchens, you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music. She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a… — Billy Ocean Copy Share Image
Because of our excessive touring and not giving up, it wasn't until 'Toys' came out that 'Dream On' really caught on. And… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I love songwriting ! It's my Number One passion other than performing. Well, actually it's like wearing three different hats: songwriting, recording… — Delbert McClinton Copy Share Image
To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to… — Jack Hodgins Copy Share Image
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
What happened was I was a songwriter on Quincy Jones' publishing company, Qwest, for two and a half years before I gave… — Siedah Garrett Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance in the music business...… — Ellis Hadlock Copy Share Image
“songs where your voice needs to be raspy,” I took another step towards her, she hung her head to avoid me seeing… — B. Love Copy Share Image
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a… — Beck Copy Share Image
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“It's as though there were two melodies going on simultaneously: one for private exploitation and the other for the public ear. The… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
“Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence,… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Joseph Beringer...dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts. 'I don't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not… — Rich the Kid Copy Share Image
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice,… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
If I played something incorrectly, I whipped myself mercilessly. Whenever I made a mistake, I made sure that I would never allow… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt… — Robbie Williams Copy Share Image
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the… — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
![“Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression. It must aim through fixations which are landmarks, to draw [one] towards a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his…” quote by Iannis Xenakis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c9b/iannis-xenakis-48999_aim_art-and-above-all-music-has-a-fundamenta_922254.png)
![“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.” quote by Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/969/tom-robbins-169_actions_to-wit-actions-like-sounds-divide-the-fl_1080600.jpg)
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