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I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well. -- Lou Gramm
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. -- Harrison Birtwistle
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist. -- Beck
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli. -- Keith Jarrett
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry. -- Billy Corgan
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. -- Michael Giles
School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said, 'Yeah, I'm going to be a musician.' I just had to do a quick stop gap in the army first. -- James Blunt
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. -- Douglas Adams
The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about. -- Big Boi
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas. -- Todd Rundgren
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. -- Anton Webern
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. -- Rob Sheffield
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature. -- Brett Dennen
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas. -- John Maus
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them -- Charles Gounod
Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive. -- Gail Zappa

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