I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
In a way, the songs are written to be performed. I put them on records, but I'm always thinking about how an… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I think about it often, but I know I try and make music that is especially moving to… — Alex G Copy Share Image
I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all… — Misty Edwards Copy Share Image
The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added… — Aoife O'Donovan Copy Share Image
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you're doing. You are really called into service -… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the… — Delilah Copy Share Image
It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
The Circle had been less than thrilled by its choice, but we'd finally come to terms. As in, they were no longer… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.'… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
“I know it'll change, and I know that is has changed. But I still think it's a very satisfying medium, to put… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ...… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
I found that people really were reaching out to someone to spill their guts to so I did the same thing lyrically… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that,… — Michael Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start. I don't even know what songs would please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Honestly, I could sing you a song But I don't think words can express your beauty It's singing to me How the… — Patience Copy Share Image
Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll write a song first and then I'm like, "Oh this person will be great on this song." But there are… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
