It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist.… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song.… — Stephen Dewaele Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my… — LIZ Copy Share Image
I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock… — The Edge Copy Share Image
Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation,… — Mirah Copy Share Image
The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and… — Eva Simons Copy Share Image
“5Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 6Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return… — International Version Copy Share Image
In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz—Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor—could never become owners of cleaning shops… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money,… — No I.D Copy Share Image
I got to see The Beatles a couple of times. In fact, I saw their last performance ever in San Francisco. The… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was… — Steve Diggle Copy Share Image
I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All… — Steve Diggle Copy Share Image
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