Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
If your whole world of a band or music is taking place in a digital realm or on technological devices, it's all… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all… — Lara Fabian Copy Share Image
Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear,… — Mendelssohn Felix Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean,… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
I think this market space, this modern world we're living in, one of its greatest failures is that it can only seem… — Herbert Copy Share Image
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice.… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from,… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you… — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
Pop music, which I deeply admire and wish I could play better than I can, is based on expressing one mood, one… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect.… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The relationship that people have with music is entirely different now. People spend much less time experiencing music on a one on… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place,… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music… — Charles Cumming Copy Share Image
Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to… — Milo Copy Share Image
![“The music is just very specifically [designed] to get you energized. That's the great thing about those situations: I have no choice. It completely takes over your body and pushes you, like it was designed to do. I'm constantly surrounded by music, energy, and experiences that put me in that state…” quote by Andrew W.K](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e4b/andrew-w-k-2939_body_the-music-is-just-very-specifically-desi_814478.jpg)
![“My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we…” quote by Tupac Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6f/tupac-shakur-516_facts_my-music-is-not-for-everyone-it-s-only-f_1121485.jpg)
![“[The music is about ] for the purpose of getting people to an excitement level. They feel something, they feel emotions. They're going to go home after that concert and remember it.Maybe they got something out of the experience rather than intellectualizing about what songs mean which is the whole…” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/276/van-morrison-1192_concerts_the-music-is-about-for-the-purpose-of-ge_1965514.jpg)
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