To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by silence and Tristan was music. So much music. All the time. Streaming in my eardrums 24-7. Serenading me… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's… — Sia Copy Share Image
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me… — Bruno Walter 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
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
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
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
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have really meaningful deep sexual experiences or you experience attraction but it may be fleeting or may it be something… — Adam Levine 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
