When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the… — Marnie Stern Copy Share Image
I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“As Jack hurried up to his room, some words from the Civil War song ran through his mind: Give us a song… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria. True love sang her… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
“I’ll dream for you, I’ll breathe for you, I’ll question God for you, I’ll shake my fists and scream and cry for… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends… — Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Copy Share Image
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
“When his solo came at the end of the song, he poured his heart into it, directing all of his energy into… — Lashell Collins Copy Share Image
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“ Children's Song We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
We did some shows - Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I always try to evolve my sound - innovate, improve, be different but still Martin Garrix. It all starts with an idea… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical… — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
My pacifism came after I joined the army and was shipped over to Korea. There was a little one-room orphanage there called… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
There's nothing I really wanted to record more than Bach. It's wonderful music. It's - on a grand scale, there's a lot… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
“Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical… — Laufey Copy Share Image
![“Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice… [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of…” quote by Arthur Kroker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/arthur-kroker-57205_ambivalent_which-is-to-say-that-culture-is-not-a-re_2344316.jpg)
![“I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to sit around and do little jam sessions in the hotel. We were pretty much in lockdown at the hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and there wasn't much to do. It was interesting to be in a room with…” quote by Curtis Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18a/curtis-grimes-44520_artist_i-got-to-meet-a-lot-of-cool-people-on-th_2416527.jpg)
![“Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world.” quote by Taylor Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/taylor-swift-125_call-me_where-is-the-video-of-kanye-west-telling_2200073.jpg)
![“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8be/john-carlos-16923_amount_the-government-did-a-lot-of-things-to-us_965079.jpg)
