“This revelation of Duport's musical leanings showed how, as ever, people can always produce something unexpected about themselves.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
So much of my intention with songs is to voice a continual dissatisfaction, or at least to claw my way out of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
All our fans have great energy, and that's where we get our energy to perform. They know how to have fun with… — CL Copy Share Image
I think I took after my parents. Using music as one of my main ways of expression just felt natural. — Mabel Copy Share Image
The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound.… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about… — Tamaryn 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
It feels like I am covering all aspects of what I do and operating in the gift God gave me. I believe… — Regina Belle Copy Share Image
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it… — George Eliot 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
“You’re beautiful.” Blake said hello as he’d said goodbye. “You said that already,” Livia mouthed over the banging music. Blake just shrugged.… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has… — Peter Warlock Copy Share Image
Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know,… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
“The butterflies began waltzing in my belly again, this time to the sweet melody of his words. Words that were meant for… — Bianca Scardoni Copy Share Image
I love soundtracks to movies and am always touched by the music if it's good. The music in some old Disney movies,… — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
“For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if… — Lisa Lewis Copy Share Image
I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever.… — Manika Copy Share Image
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my career, I wanted to be chased by girls more than anything - that's why I got the… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and… — Paul Wardingham Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The point of teaming up with American musicians was that there was no better way than that of music to let people… — Atif Aslam Copy Share Image
Some of my songs are turnt up, but that's just 'cause I have to make 'em like that so the clubs can… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
I'm a big perfectionist, and I like to make sure everything 120 percent, from the production to the vocal performance to the… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want… — Steve Landes Copy Share Image
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I rap, and I work with this dude named Chemist, who lives in Virginia. He's my go-to producer and does a lot… — Stephen Glover Copy Share Image
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ...… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
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