Always Quote by M. Jayachandran

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.

— Max Cavalera

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

— Tom Waits

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument.…

— Tod Machover

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in…

— Yo-Yo Ma

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in…

— Zedd

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art…

— Franz Liszt

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

— Steve Lacy

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

— Walter Piston

When I hear the piano played in a compositional way, like in a songwriter's way in a compositional way, there's a certain arc to…

— Chick Corea

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should…

— Simon McBurney