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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
ZEDD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a...
TOM PETTY![]()
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau...
BRENDON URIE![]()
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan...
HALSEY![]()
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured...
BRUNO MARS![]()
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, t...
EDDIE VEDDER I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ...
B.O.B![]()
I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. T...
TOMMY LEE I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE![]()
I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno...
SHY GLIZZY![]()
It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like,...
VICTORIA LEGRAND![]()
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ...
JOYCE MEYER You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t...
JAKE OWEN Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON![]()
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
CHRISTOPHER CROSS What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is ju...
ZEDD 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa...
MANIKA When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ...
RYAN CARTWRIGHT![]()
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'...
LIL UZI VERT![]()
There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to b...
STEVE AOKI![]()
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Ma...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO![]()
You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,'...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER![]()
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're...
DAVE GROHL![]()
If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make...
JAMES MCBRIDE![]()
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI![]()
Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day...
VALERIE BERTINELLI![]()
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ...
BILLY COLLINS It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to pla...
ANDRE RIEU![]()
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN![]()
A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budg...
RYAN ZINKE![]()
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and...
AMY WINEHOUSE Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha...
BETH ORTON![]()
But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a son...
REBA MCENTIRE![]()
I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That&...
MIRANDA KERR In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also throug...
PRISCILLA AHN I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if...
BRANTLEY GILBERT![]()
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
DEBBIE HARRY I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
HOAGY CARMICHAEL I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i...
B.O.B![]()
I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ...
LINDA RONSTADT Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN![]()
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h...
TRISHA YEARWOOD When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati...
BEN HARPER In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to...
CARY FUKUNAGA![]()
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t...
GEORGE STRAIT What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a trage...
SALLY PHILLIPS If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER![]()
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you...
DARIN STRAUSS![]()
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
BAT FOR LASHES It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.
NEIL CAVUTO When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but ...
BEN HUH As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't e...
DAVEY HAVOK If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit th...
WILLIAM THOMAS![]()
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ...
VINCE VAUGHN I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different tha...
CASEY WASSERMAN When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS![]()
I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Sa...
OLLY MURS![]()
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'...
CHARLI XCX If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted ...
GLEN CAMPBELL A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot...
AIDAN TURNER![]()
I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe...
JAY-Z![]()
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap...
YOUNG THUG![]()
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe...
BOB RILEY If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc...
AFROJACK Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER![]()
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th...
BLYTHE DANNER![]()
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where ...
GARY COLEMAN That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I c...
JENNY LEWIS Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a d...
DAVID NEELEMAN And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she&#...
ESTHER DYSON If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS![]()
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't e...
GARRETT HEDLUND![]()
At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ...
TYGA![]()
It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be abl...
NEIL PEART Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different ...
ANNABELLA SCIORRA![]()
Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not j...
ANSEL ELGORT![]()
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi...
PSY If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'...
MARK ZUPAN I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't d...
KEVIN O'LEARY I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't d...
KEVIN O'LEARY![]()
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin...
NINA SIMONE It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'...
GEDDY LEE![]()
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in...
POST MALONE If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it...
EDWIN STARR![]()
I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Souther...
BIG SMO It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an...
PHILLIP SWEET![]()
A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on st...
ANGUS YOUNG If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play ...
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY![]()
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE![]()
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
MAIA MITCHELL Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'S...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE![]()
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ...
RUSSELL CROWE![]()
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your hom...
JESSICA HAGEDORN
ZEDD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau... BRENDON URIE
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY
I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured... BRUNO MARS
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, t... EDDIE VEDDER I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what ...
B.O.B
I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. T... TOMMY LEE I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE
I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... SHY GLIZZY
It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like,... VICTORIA LEGRAND
I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me ... JOYCE MEYER You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell t...
JAKE OWEN Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. CHRISTOPHER CROSS What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is ju...
ZEDD 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa...
MANIKA When you're on set all day, and you don't look people in the eye, it's really relaxing. ...
RYAN CARTWRIGHT
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... LIL UZI VERT
There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to b... STEVE AOKI
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Ma... LEONARDO DICAPRIO
You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,'... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're... DAVE GROHL
If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make... JAMES MCBRIDE
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI
Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day... VALERIE BERTINELLI
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... BILLY COLLINS It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to pla...
ANDRE RIEU
I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t... T-PAIN
A lot of what a military officer does is not just leading troops in combat. It's also doing budg... RYAN ZINKE
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and... AMY WINEHOUSE Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about wha...
BETH ORTON
But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a son... REBA MCENTIRE
I'm that person who says, 'No matter what the problem is, there's a solution.' That&... MIRANDA KERR In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also throug...
PRISCILLA AHN I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if...
BRANTLEY GILBERT
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. DEBBIE HARRY I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
HOAGY CARMICHAEL I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i...
B.O.B
I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ... LINDA RONSTADT Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a h... TRISHA YEARWOOD When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati...
BEN HARPER In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to...
CARY FUKUNAGA
If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a trage...
SALLY PHILLIPS If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you...
DARIN STRAUSS
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng... BAT FOR LASHES It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.
NEIL CAVUTO When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but ...
BEN HUH As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't e...
DAVEY HAVOK If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit th...
WILLIAM THOMAS
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's ... VINCE VAUGHN I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different tha...
CASEY WASSERMAN When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth...
JENNY LEWIS
I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Sa... OLLY MURS
Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it'... CHARLI XCX If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted ...
GLEN CAMPBELL A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot...
AIDAN TURNER
I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe... JAY-Z
If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap... YOUNG THUG
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe... BOB RILEY If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc...
AFROJACK Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in th... BLYTHE DANNER
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where ... GARY COLEMAN That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I c...
JENNY LEWIS Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a d...
DAVID NEELEMAN And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she&#...
ESTHER DYSON If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't e... GARRETT HEDLUND
At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA
It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be abl... NEIL PEART Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different ...
ANNABELLA SCIORRA
Some nightlife places, people aren't there for the music, and it's depressing. I'm not j... ANSEL ELGORT
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi... PSY If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'...
MARK ZUPAN I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't d...
KEVIN O'LEARY I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't d...
KEVIN O'LEARY
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin... NINA SIMONE It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'...
GEDDY LEE
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in... POST MALONE If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it...
EDWIN STARR
I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Souther... BIG SMO It's really interesting how music can knock down a wall and be an open connection between you an...
PHILLIP SWEET
A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on st... ANGUS YOUNG If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play ...
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I... BARRY WHITE
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him mo... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
MAIA MITCHELL Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'S...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE
I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a ... RUSSELL CROWE
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your hom...
JESSICA HAGEDORN
