P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
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To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
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The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way… — Steve Berlin Copy Share Image
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't… — Illinois Jacquet Copy Share Image
To me, life is huge and thrilling and exciting and explosive and loud. If I can make music that communicates that and… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
We're trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever.… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
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I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on… — Nolan Sotillo Copy Share Image
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The recording companies are continuing to look at ways to buy short and sell long. So now they give recording deals to… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
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The Pandoras began as a '60s punk group. Then they went pop, then metal. When they went metal, I quit because I… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image
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While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
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![“A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often did. I was working on a pilot. My grandma was very sick at the time. She died of complications from alcoholism. She always used to say [in his grandma's voice], "Red wine is good for my…” quote by Cheyenne Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af4/cheyenne-jackson-16863_albums_a-few-years-ago-when-i-was-writing-songs_893330.jpg)
![“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.” quote by Arnold Schoenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfe/arnold-schoenberg-22052_art_if-it-were-possible-to-watch-composing-i_2067990.jpg)
![“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.” quote by Bear McCreary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e85/bear-mccreary-4348_contemplative_while-the-accompanimental-sic-figures-co_1908864.jpg)
