The main reason we didn't break up is because we weren't really a college band. We were just, two dudes who were… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
I'm saying that people who are enmeshed in situations of subjugation and have to live, have to find ways to project their… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern.… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden… — William Bolcom Copy Share Image
If you look at all the artists I've ever worked with, I'm still blessed enough to have one of the biggest singles… — Sean Garrett Copy Share Image
I think I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
“I just want that magical feeling I wrote about years ago when I used to write the lyrics for the band’s rock… — Carian Cole Copy Share Image
“Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You’re not crazy. Just be thankful they are not… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear somebody cover a song, I don't like to hear it stray too far from the original. I like to… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
“I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's a pretty crazy thing in which I tried to make songs, real songs, not the quick stuff like on a tape.… — Young Thug Copy Share Image
The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I… — Tones and I Copy Share Image
“So it is with the concerto of our lives. Individual notes must be learned and played and practiced before we achieve harmony.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
'Take Me Apart' doesn't feel cohesive in a singular way but in a varied way. You can fixate on individual songs, and… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I saw a truck backin out of your drive You were sitting in the passenger side Messin with the radio, you had… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
“At times, the road will be hard, the days will be long, and the journey you’ve traveled won’t feel like a song.… — Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds Copy Share Image
The song writing is different because with this stuff, I write it on my own and with Hot Water, we're more of… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
The thing is that I'm naturally curious about a lot of different disciplines in music, and I enjoy doing them. And as… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
It's the meanest thing to abuse your power as a songwriter. To write pointedly about someone... it's kind of unfair to use… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I have a hard time pleasing myself with my songs. I have to do them over and over until I think I… — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
I feel like what I'm bringing to the table that's different is like not just consistency in the music but consistency in… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image