“The fact indeed that music—like love, electricity and other elemental forces—cannot be defined is its special glory. It is a peculiar, mysterious… — Walter Raymond Spalding Copy Share Image
And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
In every generation, politicians let us down, but music can lift us above the fighting and the mistakes. It does not offer… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
The thing is, the way we write is all jams and bits and pieces that get pieced together and sometimes things are… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened… — Tom Jenkinson Copy Share Image
I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old… — Buck Owens Copy Share Image
The first guitar I ever picked up was an acoustic black Fender, so it makes perfect sense that Elias plays Fender guitars.… — Elias Copy Share Image
Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and… — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
I think Pantera is a type of band that has been documented very, very well over the years. With the past re-releases,… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I would say my relationships have always affected my music. Each one. I wrote most of my great songs, that I'm still… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have been happy, and we probably would have been OK… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand.… — Marjorie Gubelmann Copy Share Image
When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I… — Grimes Copy Share Image
“Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music.… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The production pushes and pulls you as much as the song does. It's almost more to do with the production value of… — Adam Faulkner Copy Share Image
Everybody needs inspiration Everybody needs a song A beautiful melody, when the night's so long 'Cause there is no guarantee, that this… — Unkown Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about how to be in a band. It's like being in a marriage to these people. Because there's… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just… — Maya Beiser Copy Share Image
I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
“The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony,… — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it,… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
“Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
The music business is about people. And I think that's why I disregard the business aspect of it so much, because I… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
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