It's what I do my entire life when I'm not doing music. If I'm in a hotel room in Sweden, or on… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it… — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
All songs have those X factors. I couldn't even explain or describe what will grab me about them but it's all music… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't… — Shura Copy Share Image
I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music… — Christine Anderson Copy Share Image
Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a… — Sam Tsui Copy Share Image
Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I'm always inspired by things like old Cole Porter… — Ron Mael Copy Share Image
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Unlike music, excessive reading has been shown to be dangerous for the female mind. It was taught in our earliest lectures: the… — Anna Hope Copy Share Image
I love drill beats. They're so hard and can be molded to fit any emotion. The 808s drew me in at first,… — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
“Before the Battle: Music of whispering trees Hushed by the broad-winged breeze Where shaken water gleams; And evening radiance falling With reedy… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much… — Amanda Stott Copy Share Image
“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person,… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
I hear melodies in my head, Find little notes in my bed, Ive got songs tangled up in my hair, I see… — Kiara Copy Share Image
The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
“music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other.… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
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![“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.” quote by Bear McCreary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e85/bear-mccreary-4348_contemplative_while-the-accompanimental-sic-figures-co_1908864.jpg)
![“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.” quote by Arnold Schoenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfe/arnold-schoenberg-22052_art_if-it-were-possible-to-watch-composing-i_2067990.jpg)
