#music

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. ↗

— Bruce Cockburn

#around #composing #hadn #i #loved

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#anybody #great #great thing #me #music

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#before #child #first #guess #i

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know? ↗

— Ethan Coen

#just #know #like #music #piece

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#called #cool #david #doing #electronica

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#because #chance #comedy #fans #get

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#about #composer #copland #felt #had

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#being #case #composer #encouraged #even

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#culture #full #mexican #music

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#down #i #i can #i think #listen