When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I only tend to use YouTube for learning difficult guitar things or music videos. I tend to just walk around London and… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
“Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to… — Michael Cogdill Copy Share Image
There are so many amazing out, gay, black artists who are really great in their own fields, but they aren't necessarily trying… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“There is nothing hard for people to comprehend in Kalpop. Kalpop is music and the rhythm of the world. Music has words.… — DON SANTO Copy Share Image
I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I work on films, I like to be involved from as early as possible. I think this is really good and… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
I've listened to a lot of different styles of music growing up, and they've all influenced me at different times in my… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My… — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
That's been a real positive, wonderful thing that's a part of the music that I've been a part of - making someone… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
My music has a little hint of down south but I don't have a down south accent. I guess it's just the… — King Louie Copy Share Image
I mostly listen to very popular songs. But I'm a huge fan of Stevie Wonder, and I love jazz - Glenn Fredly,… — Joe Taslim Copy Share Image
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion. — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. — James Brown Copy Share Image
I had grown up with music influence of my grandad, uncle, dad. So, professionally I first assisted others to do something different,… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear… — Letta Mbulu Copy Share Image
I never really planned on any of this being a career; all I knew for sure was that I wanted to create,… — Mija Copy Share Image
When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare queried 'if music be the food of love, play on'; Well, I say laughter is life's champagne cocktail and humourlessness its… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...” — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
