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If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
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If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
A lot of people think I popped out of some pink cloud fully formed, ready for action, but I've been putting songs… — Shura Copy Share Image
You spend all day getting the song goo,d and you're listening to it late at night, and you're happy with it. But… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“Songs remain. They last. The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. A song can last… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It so happens that certain songs becomes part of culture, and culture is a form of preserving patterns. Yes, we're Mexican, and… — Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega Copy Share Image
“Listen! Before you can fully understand the notes, dear boy, you must first understand the space you will place them in. Space… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music...… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Of course, you can't do… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
So this is the last song I sing to you It's time I be a man and I face the truth. Lies… — Chester See Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has… — Moby Copy Share Image
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Part of what I like to do with Brainfeeder is to get the younger kids hearing jazz, because they don't know where… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
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Spotify favors hits. It's very much a meritocracy: It's not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original.… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
I could care less about ever having a No. 1 single. I would just like to be able to play and have… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across,… — Michael Marisi Ornstein Copy Share Image
CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
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Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
I remember years ago hearing a top band talking about a song of theirs that was a monster hit and they were… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
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I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
The B-52s, you know, our songs are about volcanoes or lobsters. Cindy and I sing them like our lives depend on them.… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
