Heart Quote by Jodi Picoult

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

— Van Cliburn

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

— Eric Bachmann

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

— Florence Welch

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly…

— Phil Elverum

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into…

— Ariel Pink

I'm not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I'm interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like…

— Danny Elfman

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because…

— Kevin Morby

Once you really get into a song, other than just listening to it, it forces you to go 'oh, they did this. I never…

— Greg Laswell

“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure and melody…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what…

— Tommy Bolin

I'm not that type of musician where I can sit down at the piano and work out a song; I actually really enjoy that…

— Dave Gahan