Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end,… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
When a song blows your mind the first time you hear it, you don't know where it's going. It's blowing your mind… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I kinda feel that my brother wrote some of the best country lyrics ever - 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew,' 'Mississippi Kid'… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to take classes with Mel Powell at Yale University as well as a semester with Sam Adler at… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
I think, to a degree, I'm maybe more suited for voice work. And I don't just mean my face and body. Because… — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Aurora was romantic and brooding and heartbreaking and volatile all at once. In the age of arena rock, Daisy Jones & The… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in… — Mikal Cronin Copy Share Image
I get a chance to see new bands and new music. I've seen a lot of amazing local bands, bands that I… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value.… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
“Music is fodder for my soul. Without it, I could not have gotten through heartbreak. I could not have traveled so far.… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle 'round… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
If you do something, you should do it because you love it, and you should follow your heart and make it how… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“Anton Brookes: I think I was within my right to accuse him of selling out a little bit, if you think about… — Mark Yarm Copy Share Image
“But if the "genius" campaign gave the other Beach Boys short shrift, the real damage was to Brian himself. It put even… — James S. Hirsch Copy Share Image
I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy… There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years… — Brent Smith Copy Share Image
For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
New York sounds like something that I could really listen to. It's like a vibe; it's a hit song. It's a song… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Life is like a PIANO... The White Keys represent Happiness and Black Keys represent Sadness But as U go through Life's Journey… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people out there who are so known for their style of music but if you sat down and spoke to… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim… — Sia Copy Share Image
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's… — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
I like that people feel like they can trust their own secrets with our band. It's kind of cool. Not only is… — All American Rejects Copy Share Image
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