Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I came into music kind of late in life - until I was 17 I wanted to be a spy, wanted to… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image
When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
“The notes burst from her fingers, staggering at first, but then more confidently as the emotion in the music took over. It… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to… — Paul Burch Copy Share Image
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq... the guy on the court. But there is another side to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I guess everywhere I go, I get inspired by those places, and then I have a bunch of Voicenotes on my phone.… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
“I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It seems like for everything thats inspiring and exciting about it, therere things that are overwhelming and bogging down the business side… — Medeski Martin And Wood Copy Share Image
The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
The one that achieved the greatest amount of success is the Eagles. And because it was really successful, it was a lot… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Ambient music is my favorite art form because there's no interface. It just commands you how to feel. There's no suggestion of… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I definitely enjoy working within different contexts, with different collaborators, and in different locations. I need to keep feeding myself as an… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to… — Lunice Copy Share Image
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Country music fans are the best everywhere and they've always made me feel like I'm at home, no matter what zip code… — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
DSU' and the ones prior, the music was concretely my escape from everything else, and on 'Beach Music' onwards, it's still an… — Alex G Copy Share Image
We used to go to Palm Springs, ditch school when I was in eleventh grade, and go hang out poolside with our… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard… — John Doe Copy Share Image
A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never… — Carlos Gavito Copy Share Image
You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
We learned at a young age, with our dad, that even if you weren't doing something, you had to look like you… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
