I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
I'm interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I'm very interested… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a song with Tom Waits. Around when I was like 17 or 18, my buddy, D-Money, put me… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation… — Bennie Maupin Copy Share Image
It may never happen, but I'd love to make a movie and not be rushed or concerned about shooting too much film.… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
Writing is private and personal but after I have the idea and I have some of it in place I'll share it… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
I've had a high turnover of band members because I require something very specific, musically. I require someone who's really creative, as… — CMAT Copy Share Image
“He shrugged, working to make her understand. “There’s whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don’t take… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
Our industry holds a musical perception about each emotion that we depict in our narrative. As music composers, our job is either… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“They call it "young music"; I see, however, that the record industry makes millions by the carload for shrewd older people! They… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
These people shred. That's what I was saying about Nashville-you can go to an open mic night at the Holiday Inn and… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
It does need to be addressed when a band looks as hot as we do. There's no avoiding these facts. If they… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
I have moved around a lot, and I've lived in all of these different environments - that has affected the kinds of… — Tei Shi Copy Share Image
For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
“Much of the music of the north European Baroque is familiar to organists, but it is often played and registered in a… — Barbara Owen Copy Share Image
It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
There are three people's careers I'd like to meld together into my own... Jay Z's for his business mindset, Macklemore's hustle as… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I can sit at my computer and find a cool sound, or a new synth patch, and get super-inspired by that… — Kygo Copy Share Image
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I've chronicled a time when I was 17, 18, utterly terrified that you're not gonna get anywhere with whatever you want to… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left… — George Chakiris Copy Share Image
“(regarding the prelude from suite two)... The key is minor, the three notes a tragic triad. The tones move closer and closer… — Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
“Resolution. Musicians know all about that, don’t they? Pieces of music seek resolution, have to end on a particular note, or it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
![“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio…” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/pete-seeger-1942_actors_he-alan-lomax-started-right-off-trying-t_1712245.jpg)
