Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can.… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot more freedom in doing the solo thing. It's almost like switching bands every time I do an… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I actually felt sorry for Liverpool bands like Bunnymen and Wah!, having this immense pressure of following the Beatles. I suppose I… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul… — Ben Galley Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only… — Bill Conti Copy Share Image
My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
“Sing little box Don't let sleep overtake you The world's awake within you In your four-sided emptiness We turn distance into nearness… — Vasko Popa Copy Share Image
Always in movies... drummers are portrayed as the dumb character... I don't know why. Most of the drummers I know are the… — G Flip Copy Share Image
With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin"… — Aaron Watson Copy Share Image
“If radios and microwaves merged, then the ideal pop song would be three minutes, or the length of time a bag of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The process of creativity, absorbing aspects of life and channeling it into something shared or tangible - that's my ideal brain food.… — Richard Norris Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things as an engineer is watching a band get comfortable in the studio and getting a great take.… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember how beautiful it was to fall asleep on your couch and cry in front of you for the first time.… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it… — Gustav Ejstes Copy Share Image
![“I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.” quote by Marc-Andre Hamelin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/marc-andre-hamelin-28368_chance_i-think-one-of-the-reasons-nikolai-medtn_744076.jpg)
![“I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/542/rainer-maria-rilke-193_circles_i-live-my-life-in-widening-circle-that-r_2212316.jpg)
![“In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76d/anonymous-1_angel_in-this-music-the-singing-of-the-angels_1234245.jpg)
