Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image
I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“It is not simply as release or play, in other words, that popular music saves society from its routine murders; it is… — Timothy Brennan Copy Share Image
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money,… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
For a long time, music was hope. Now it seems music isn't enough to make me happy. It used to be that's… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as… — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial… — Bryan White Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music… — Nas Copy Share Image
If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's… — Halsey Copy Share Image
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
I hung at the studio. Myself and James Booker and several other musicians, as kids, we just literally hung at the studio,… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
When I first heard Bjork's music, I felt like I was a similar-minded thinker, both harmonically and melodically. She takes those things… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I may be prejudiced, but I believe that jazz music has the strongest healing potential, and it's not just because I play… — Horace Silver Copy Share Image
“Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“There are special neurological hazards, “disorders of skill,” that may affect professional musicians. The normal association of intellectual and emotional may break… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had… — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
Teaching has made me realize that a lot of my fast playing is the musical equivalent of, 'Umm... umm... uhh...' - it's… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's always amazing seeing the song-writing process. A song just starts off as just an idea or a story you want to… — Manika Copy Share Image
You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see… — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music,… — Montserrat Caballe Copy Share Image
If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they would choreograph… — Betty Gilpin Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
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