When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's… — Prince Copy Share Image
I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music… — Johnny Reid Copy Share Image
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
“To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember looking at my iTunes and was like, 'I haven't listened to an album in about three months.' What happened? I… — James Righton Copy Share Image
The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm volatile, up-tempo, quick to react and passionate. People often think all that high-energy stuff is just for the stage, but that's… — Keith Flint Copy Share Image
If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
“And then, as someone turned the music up by the bar, I kicked off my shoes and I began to dance. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really… — Pantha du Prince Copy Share Image
I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they… — Mike D Copy Share Image
I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
One of the catches with being a dope artist is saying the same exact thing a trillion different ways, and being able… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
For artists of my caliber, we're not played on the radio, so we don't really get a chance to get involved in… — Boy George Copy Share Image
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song.… — Stephen Dewaele Copy Share Image
I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted:… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at… — Afeni Shakur Copy Share Image
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it.… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let… — Jermaine Dupri Copy Share Image
I used to do stand-up when I was in high school. But I was also making beats for this rap group, and… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and… — Bobby Keys Copy Share Image
![“When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all…” quote by Prince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/261/prince-1626_believe_when-i-m-writing-songs-some-days-the-pen_1718202.jpg)
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