Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
When you're in a daze - whether it's from running or a hangover or whatever else - I think that ideas from… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching… — Pete Rock Copy Share Image
I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex,… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
To me, Miami is like Hell and I'm Osiris when it comes to music - I'm underrated and I came through with… — SpaceGhostPurrp Copy Share Image
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
The music comes first, like, 99 percent of the time. I come up with the basic chord structure and the melody first… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
“I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
Don't be scared, you've got the mood prepared. Go on and kiss the girl. Don't stop now, don't try to hide it… — The Little Mermaid Copy Share Image
We kind of have a cranky side of ourselves, so when people get upset about what we're doing, we kind of feel… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
“An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word.… — Marisa Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Come to me, and I will try to heal you. I will try to heal you, if you but come back,” Sasha… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I didn't realize what I was even doing when I started to record music. I was just doing it for fun. I… — Alex Goot Copy Share Image
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Country music is about the same thing writing about where youre from, ¦ Youve got to respect (Toby), because hes selling a… — Ludacris Copy Share Image
The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
"St. Lucia We Love" is actually a song produced by Stratosphere music (also St. Lucian). The CEO of Stratosphere music approached me… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance. But for me fame is like… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
Our nights didn't begin until after noon. Because in the old days, you'd start Birdland at 8:30 or 9 pm and play… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image