Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“Destiny does not lead us in a straight line. As if to some silent music, people and events come into our lives.… — Rosemary Gard Copy Share Image
“Pretty people are a dime a dozen and sex can be had with a complete stranger…but crossing paths with one who awakens… — Miya Yamanouchi Copy Share Image
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie,… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous,… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced,… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs,… — Lara Pulver Copy Share Image
Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to… — Leslie Bibb Copy Share Image
With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to… — Cannonball Adderley Copy Share Image
The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I feel dance and pop music genres are extremely female and extremely gay. When it comes to art and pop culture, queers… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
For example, if it's a sad scene, I need to feel that way, at least to a slight degree and for a… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
But I keep cruising Can't stop, won't stop moving It's like I got this music In my mind Saying, It's gonna be… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music.… — Erik Hassle Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this,… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football,… — Ben Platt Copy Share Image
It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
![“I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more…” quote by India.Arie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/188/india-arie-2-7871_acoustics_i-do-experiment-with-lots-of-different-g_42376.jpg)
