I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
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Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe… — Eric Betzig Copy Share Image
I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that… — H. M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“I’d never believed musicians should be paid by the church. Their roles are vital, but so are the ushers and nurses who… — Love Belvin Copy Share Image
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In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that's not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be… — Charlie Weber Copy Share Image
I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is… — Hephzibah Menuhin Copy Share Image
Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I feel like when you first start out, people like your story. They like these facts about you. And as you get… — Nav Copy Share Image
In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
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In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It was mostly covers of favorite… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I made songs in the late '90s and the early new millennium that didn't succeed very well, but songs that I made… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
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I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
“So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each beat. Thrusting her… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I think all artists want that plaque, whether it's Gold or Platinum or multi-platinum. I think we all look forward to getting… — Gza Copy Share Image
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I have a long way to go before I'd feel comfortable calling myself a musician. My dad taught me that you lay… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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