Creating Music Quotes (page 3)

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• ignorance
• past
• commitment

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears. Oscar Wilde

• time
• writing
• job

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. Lady Gaga

• music
• people
• different

Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.' Like you?' On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who... Paulo Coelho

• life
• feeling
• going home

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin Janis Joplin

• music
• thinking
• irish

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. Van Morrison

• encouraging
• work
• old

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. Robert Morris

• great
• energy
• chance

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. Ikue Mori

• music
• picture
• space

I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space. Joe Meek

• music
• money
• evening

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! Michel Gondry

• good
• music
• money

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. Barry Gibb

• fall
• love
• art

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love. Lady Gaga

• music
• work
• independent

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. David Friedman

• music
• magic
• wonder

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is. Mick Fleetwood

• success
• god
• music

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful. Donna Summer

• joy
• single
• success

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music. Tim Finn