“Music isn't from what is written on the paper, it is what we make the notes on the paper to be.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that… — Redd Foxx Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle.… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
“His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Rarely a producer gives me music and I write to it. I think that's too easy. Most of the time for me,… — Brooke Valentine Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Amon Tobin has been producing electronic music since the mid-'90s, and was a key figure in the rise of drum-and-bass. He's also… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. It's the morning of your very first day. You say hi… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social… — Memory Tapes Copy Share Image
“Music has always assuaged my lacerations, brightened my hours, added glow to my little joys and given wings to my fantasy flights.” — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“I didn't intend to give up music. In fact I needed it. I craved it. I longed for it with such ferocity,… — Stormy Smith Copy Share Image
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Before I was born, my mom was rapping. My dad was into rapping too. By the time I was here, I was… — Lil Chuckee Copy Share Image
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves. — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how inspirational posters and “soothing” music can make you want to punch yourself in the face.” — Tracey Ward Copy Share Image
I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“It’s not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we’ll need a way of defending it against… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
