“The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.” IfsEndsProcessInterestingResultsEatingMusic IsCookingCooksEnd ResultsEating Food Author:Ryan Adams
“As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.” MeanProcessMusic IsBackgroundsLoud Author:Youth Lagoon
“I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.” GivingIdeasWantedFunProcessQualityFiveWeekMusic IsStudiosSci FiQuality Music Author:Martin Gore
“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'” WritingSaidSoulProcessSoundMusicSubjectsPoetMusic IsMusicalSensationsConfessionCompositionDefiniteLyricalIndefinable Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.” WayArtBodyLyingSongCultureProcessAttitudeMusic IsRelationFolksFeaturesFolk Music Author:Sam Hinton
“I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.” WayArtistWishProcessNaturalMusic IsTrackRemix Author:Justin Broadrick
“I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.” KnowsDoneWholeBigsWantedProcessEnjoyWaterKnow HowInternetInvolvedMusic IsDetailsLabelsBottles Author:Brian Eno
“I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.” ThinkingFeelsArtistProcessPowerfulInspireMusic IsMediumsDefinedCapabilityListenersIntuitiveBack And ForthPower Of Music Author:Serj Tankian
“For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.” ProcessMusic Is Author:Jim Jarmusch
“You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.” PeopleWayDifferentActionProcessMusic IsListening To MusicAlways Learning Author:Evan Peters
“If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.” IfsThinkingWorldWantShouldBelieveFunProcessEnjoyMusic IsIdealsSticksPrivilegeIf You BelieveLearning ProcessIdeal World Author:Kate Bush
“Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain.” ArtSoulFactsSpiritualProcessBrainInformationMusic IsVisualsDoorwaysPlugsVisual Art Author:Peter Gabriel
“But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.” ThinkingWellsBigsProcessDecisionSilenceMusic IsReflectionContemplationEnd TimesSpend TimeMediation Author:Kimbra
“The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'” PeopleProcessBandMusic IsChecksHeyIntroducingNew Music Author:Mark Hoppus
“And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.” FeelsEndsFilmProcessActingDesignElementsMusic IsFilmmakingFistsPunchingCinematographyBest Film Author:Ethan Hawke
“I'm just going with the flow. I'm in the process, I'm on the path. I'm really working towards all of my goals and music is definitely on the way.” WayProcessGoalPathMusic IsFlowGoing With The Flow Author:Brandy Norwood
“My music is also one part of my inner process, and people also seem to connect with me on that - especially the ones who have the same questions for their own lives.” PeopleSeemsProcessMusic Is Author:Volker Bertelmann
“Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.” FeelsWritingProcessCreativeMusic IsExcitingCreative ProcessLike SomethingWriting MusicExciting Things Author:Zooey Deschanel
“Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.” WritingSongFeltProcessCreatingMusic IsChaosReleaseTherapyRoutineDislikeWriting ProcessGood PlaceCreating Music Author:Mpho Koaho
“[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.” PeopleWantGivingProcessViewsCreativeSubjectsMusic IsGive MeCreative ProcessPersonal Life Author:Tyga
“To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both expressive and causal and can organize reality atmosphere like a law of physics.” RealityLawProcessSoundMusic IsPhysicsAtmosphereThreadCompositionOrganizeDeliberateExpressiveLaws Of PhysicsCacophony Author:Warren Jeffs
“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.” ProcessMusicMankindInspireMusic IsWinePressesPianoGloriousComposerPlaying MusicFunny MusicBest WineBacchus Author:Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling.” WholeProcessCreationMusic IsFulfillingPhoenixOasis Author:River Phoenix