“Mass movements are always so unhip. That’s what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
“Eiffel Tower" To Robert Delaunay Eiffel Tower Guitar of the sky Your wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the bees During… — Vicente Huidobro Copy Share Image
Most of my songs just come from everyday life experiences - they can just be like really small things have happened in… — Ruel Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
I didn't make the same song twice, but I definitely made the sequel to it, because everyone would come up to me… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist.… — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed. They can just say two words about… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song.… — Stephen Dewaele Copy Share Image
Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always… — Sam Fogarino Copy Share Image
“Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's when it starts getting criminal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when your life is at a breaking point, every freaking song on the radio relates to it. If… — Jennifer Foor Copy Share Image
The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've been making electronic music since I was 12. I was making music as soon as I knew how to make sounds… — Travis Stewart Copy Share Image
I'll never be bothered if I don't have a hit because you look at the songs that are hits and they're none… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
“I am Elaine dughter of Barnard of Ascolat. Motherless. Sisterless. I sing these words to you now, because the point of light… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
I had simply been inspired by Arthur Godfrey (40's) and Ukulele Ike and Cliff Edwards (20's). In there day, they were huge… — Tiny Tim Copy Share Image
“It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz—Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor—could never become owners of cleaning shops… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money,… — No I.D Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image