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Composing music is hard work. -- John Williams
It's hard to find vehicles for your music. -- Nikki Sixx
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work. -- George Gershwin
With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure. -- Yanni
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. -- Avicii
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. -- John Oates
The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes. -- Kaki King
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in. -- Trace Adkins
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad. -- David Geffen
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. -- Kris Allen
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. -- John Legend
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. -- Steve Hackett
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. -- Gary Carter
I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! -- Evangeline Lilly
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. -- Afrojack
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days. -- Kevin Eubanks
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories. -- Bobby Womack
Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore. -- Juliana Hatfield
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar. -- Kenny Werner
Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand? -- Alban Berg
Love. It's too hard. That's why I listen to music. -- Craig Nicholls
No matter how hard times are, people still want music. -- Irene Hunt
It must be really hard to be starting out in music now. -- Bryan Ferry
The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up. -- Natasha Bedingfield
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind. -- Adam Gopnik
It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music. -- George C. Marshall
but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. -- Tom Waits
Life is the music of your soul; all you need to do is to listen hard -- Munia Khan
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel. -- Lester Bowie
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience. -- Alessandro Nivola
I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do. -- Linda Ronstadt
I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard. -- Hannah Moskowitz
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time. -- Denis Leary
I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it? -- Jerry Reed
Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music. -- Melanie Fiona
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio. -- Shelby Lynne
I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears -- Miyavi
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit. -- Martha Wainwright
In music, push yourself but not too hard; if you play too many sharps you may cut your fingers. -- Sneha Abraham
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally. -- Jake Bugg
Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home. -- Sean Mackin
I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have. -- Jason Mraz
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. -- Zubin Mehta
Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. -- Bradford Cox
I still like weird music but there's such an overabundance that it's hard for me to stay enthusiastic about it. -- Girl Talk
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. -- Alan Hovhaness
When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character. -- Grace Jones
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. -- Zedd
Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. -- Gwen Stefani
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it. -- Michael Kiwanuka
I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do. -- Tom Scharpling
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. -- Bobby Sherman
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. -- Jeff Buckley
Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music. -- Jerry Reed
I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only. -- Elizabeth Banks
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. -- Elliott Carter
I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die. -- Melanie Laurent
If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard. -- Nigel Godrich
I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. -- Rick Astley
We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music. -- Caroline Corr
I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft. -- Peter Ham
I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life. -- Andrew McMahon
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It's hard to put my music in a specific genre, but if you had to, "instrumental cyber metal" would be an accurate one. -- Paul Wardingham
As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. -- Brenda Sutton Rose
As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music. -- Kyp Malone
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. -- Roberta Flack
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be. -- Beck
I think the thing that is hard for a lot of bands is that there is a lot of free music out there. -- Jason Wade
A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real. -- William Beckett
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny. -- Julianne Moore
It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun. -- Jeff Long
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is. -- Lindsey Haun
I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. -- Roger Glover
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four. -- Jerry Garcia
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. -- Alessia Cara
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage. -- Erin McKeown
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical? -- Josef Albers
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly. -- Carrie Brownstein
You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific. -- Bill Bruford
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. -- Walter de La Mare
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. -- Ed Droste
As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback. -- Ben Lovett
I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life. -- James Paxton
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to. -- Brian Eno
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. -- Michael Gungor
I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way. -- Janet Fitch
I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before. -- Natalia Kills
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head. -- Michelle Kwan
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing. -- Questlove
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely. -- Christine Baranski
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely -- Christine Baranski
I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it. -- Diana Krall
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard. -- Dick Dale
Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine. -- FKA twigs
It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot. -- Alexandre Desplat
I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music. -- Charles Hazlewood
Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do. -- Gorilla Zoe
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences]. -- Lucrecia Martel
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. -- Nancy Sinatra
[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music. -- Rodney Crowell
I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both. -- Diego Boneta
Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music. -- Paul Dano
It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure. -- Kiesza
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. -- Boris Vian
It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. -- Kim Gordon
I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. -- Condoleezza Rice
The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get. -- Joseph Kosinski
I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music. -- Eddie Vedder
When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement. -- Arca
I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music... -- Grant Evans
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative. -- F. Sionil Jose
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed. -- Karen Armstrong
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share. -- Agnes Obel
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it. -- Mose Allison
While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my iPod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original 'Cinderella.' -- Lee Daniels
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue. -- Kim Gordon

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