Moving to L.A., I got really into hip-hop and trap music and basically a lot of the sounds you would maybe normally… — Mija Copy Share Image
But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Jungle' in my bedroom when I was having a manic time with a particular girl. Everyone thinks it's this really… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are.… — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if… — Kygo Copy Share Image
I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris… — Richard Bonynge Copy Share Image
My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those… — Cuco Copy Share Image
It was my dad’s idea that music is supposed to be more than simply about entertainment and making a living, but about… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick… — Nneka Copy Share Image
To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
With music I get to feel real ownership with what I do. I write it, I perform it and even if it… — John Cho Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I realized that even though I believe with my whole heart in the power of music... it didn't provide any solid answers… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and… — D'Angelo Copy Share Image
You don't need any specialized education and you don't need to know anything about the world in which I work. I think… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview… — Kim Him-chan Copy Share Image
It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I… — Ian Axel Copy Share Image
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's… — Dolora Zajick Copy Share Image
Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I wasn't really actively trying to pursue music, so I was really just allowed to create freely without any pressure or outside… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
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