I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to… — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give… — Leif Garrett Copy Share Image
“There was gray train smoke over the town most days, it smelled of travel, of transcontinental trains about to flash by, of… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
“At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano, a beautiful old 1894 Bechstein concert grand that… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I've been relying very heavily on my instincts as of late, and my songwriting has come to depend on my ability to… — Christine Anderson Copy Share Image
If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from… — Claudio Simonetti Copy Share Image
Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical… — Marvin Hamlisch Copy Share Image
With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent,… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
“A blanket could be used to make magical music. And no, I’m not talking about sex and wailing orgasms, you pervert. That’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of… — Bobby Wagner Copy Share Image
Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band… — Liam Payne Copy Share Image
I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an… — Patti Scialfa Copy Share Image
I think I would really lay down and die. Music comes from a very primal, twisted place. When a person sings, their… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I love music with everything I have, and when I am in a front of a classroom talking about music sometimes someone… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it… — Kyle Copy Share Image
Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school.… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
