What do you mean, 'playing really creatively'? Can you give me an example?" "Hmm, let's see ... you send the music deep… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“She breathes music. Lives it and bleeds it. Her headphones have become her heartbeat. Her lyrics are her life. Music is her… — x-Myistic-x Copy Share Image
The elements of a good story are most definitely details, little bitty details. That does it, especially when you're describing, when you're… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years.… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
“The morning television had been martial music and generals, admirals, air marshals and police chiefs displaying crisp uniforms and chests full of… — Harlan Wolff Copy Share Image
Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“...there was this moment-a moment affected by exhaustion, Zyban, nicotine withdrawal, alcohol, marijuana, dreamy sensual music, and testosterone-when I lost track of… — Edward Southgate Copy Share Image
The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I… — Carlos Delgado Copy Share Image
I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out,… — Kat Dahlia Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any… — El-P Copy Share Image
Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I… — Flume Copy Share Image
Never had a hit movie or hit TV show or hit record. I just had visions of doing the best quality of… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
I've just really been into melody and lyrics and songwriting. Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
I feel like boys listen to my music. They just don't like to admit it, but I go hard. But yeah, I… — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words,… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
You know, when you are doing a musical you have no life - you are doing eight shows a week, so you… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote.… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
“Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Once you find your own sound, you find the strength and courage to stay true to that. Keep going even in moments… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of… — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I record all night and sleep all day. It started because you're excited about the music and you want to stay up… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image