When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that… — Alice Levine Copy Share Image
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.” — Karen Mueller Coombs Copy Share Image
I'm really, really into the rave scene and just kind of how people come together and how it's just music and just… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of… — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
With The Brood, it was cool because it had the music, it had the different look and at the time reality-based characters… — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'.… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create… — Ray J Copy Share Image
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief… — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really… — Kygo Copy Share Image
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music… — SonReal Copy Share Image
I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of… — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
If I'm on an away game or on my way to the stadium or on a bus ride, I listen to more… — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
“A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun. — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?' — Shura Copy Share Image
My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
“Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer.… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Pac was real, and he put everything into that music with the passion, creativity, and the drive, and I feel like it's… — Metro Boomin Copy Share Image
“As Derek explained to me, he started by pursuing music at night and on the weekend. “I didn’t quit my day job… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“They drive our behaviors and control our moods. If music is emotion expressed in the medium of sound, flavor is emotion expressed… — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough. — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
