I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it. — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews. — Van Hunt Copy Share Image
Baby you light up my world like nobody else I whisper as I turn my laptop brightness up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids. — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff. — Jules Shear Copy Share Image
The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll. — Dr. John Copy Share Image
When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of music. I listened to a whole lot of oldies - I never really listened to rap… — O. T. Genasis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song. — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of… — Jai Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I keep a band of music in my ante-room," he said once to her. "It has orders to play without stopping; it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
When I was younger it was a lot of quantity over quality. Just writing, writing, writing. Hundreds of songs. Now it's fewer… — Lights Copy Share Image
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician. — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a collage. It samples from all different styles of music. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals! — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me. — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on. — Kim Dickens Copy Share Image
Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
Both the industries, be it Bollywood or music, have been really kind to me. — Badshah Copy Share Image
John Lydon must be more famous for his efforts on behalf of dairy products than his music. — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that. — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
