Air Quote by Libby Larsen

“I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating, and that's what you get when you let your heart win”

— Paramore

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations…

— Cole Swensen

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look…

— James Horner

In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and…

— Barbara Harbach

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

— Chet Faker

I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try…

— Gael Monfils

I think I would have just thrived in the 70s. Because firstly, there'd be no Internet and you'd have to actually get to know…

— Naughty Boy

I think music is better listened to with other people. Music is better shared. It depends what situation you're in - if it's a…

— Tom Odell

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

— SZA

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.

— Kemp Muhl

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit…

— Roger Meddows Taylor

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

— Regina Spektor

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

— Matisyahu