Concepts Quote by Hal David

Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of time and…

— Chris de Burgh

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets…

— David Byrne

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

— Krist Novoselic

A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area.

— Ronnie Drew

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

— Michael Tippett

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

— Bruce Springsteen

To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.

— Dave Kikoski

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

— Kurt Vile

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

— Kate Bush

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or…

— Barbra Streisand

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of…

— Gavin Bryars

While the concert is instant communication with the audience, composing is a creative process where a song comes up out of nowhere and then…

— Shankar Mahadevan