When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music. — Goldie Copy Share Image
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music,… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
A good melody may be translated into any language while still remaining consistent with the tune since music and melody know no… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Music was a part of my life even before acting happened. But I mostly play my guitar only for myself and sometimes… — Aditya Roy Kapur Copy Share Image
[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
We had a band with our parents called Rockenhaim and we only played covers and our first gig was at a deli… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is,… — Miguel Copy Share Image
It started out ordinarily enough: In 1975, we were two boys that happened to share a mutual sense of humor, a love… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
Music has always helped me stay creative and grounded because I'm traveling and shooting and trying to understand other people. Music was… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
It's good for people to be able to see an archive of an artist learning how to write and getting better, especially… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and… — BoA Copy Share Image
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering. — Laura Smith Copy Share Image
I always compare our music to a race car team. I told the band, 'You build the right car and I'll drive… — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are emotional romantic numbers, so they are likely to suit a few situations in films. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go. — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always… — Estelle Copy Share Image
I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music,… — Donavon Frankenreiter Copy Share Image
Letters start with ABC, numbers start with 123, music starts with DO-RE-ME, and love starts with YOU AND ME — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not, and never have been, a man to carry a flag and lead great masses of people on to great music.… — Arthur Fiedler Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. — David Berman Copy Share Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell Copy Share Image