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
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
I disguise a few things in my songs. You know, it's not what you say, it's how you say it. There are… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter.… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical… — Steven Pinker 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
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
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
The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they… — Neil Young 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
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
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
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.… — Alexander Carmichael Copy Share Image
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing… — Elton John 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“The sound of the chorus came across the water and I felt leap up that old impulse, which has moved me all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Oh, this is the song about the young man who loves a young woman. Has he the right to use such a… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“For those who listened attentively to his strong voice, filled with anxiety and, at times, breaking with despair, Shostakovich had become a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
