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The most unique thing about music making is sharing. -- Igor Levit
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. -- Tunde Adebimpe
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making. -- Zubin Mehta
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. -- Paul Winter
When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you. -- Georgia Nott
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream. -- Charles Hazlewood
My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart. -- Carlo Maria Giulini
Making music is fantastic. -- Warren Cuccurullo
Cooking is exactly like making music. -- Charlie Trotter
I don't intend to stop making music. -- Frank Ocean
I don't feel comfortable making empty music. -- Talib Kweli
I started making music professionally when I was 14. -- Sky Ferreira
I make music because I like making music. -- Natalia Kills
I love making music, though. I love playing. -- Pharrell Williams
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. -- Barry White
No matter what, I'm always interested in making music. -- Chris Robinson
But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. -- John Lurie
Music is like making love: either all or nothing. -- Isaac Stern
People don't have fun making music all the time. -- Ken Hill
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. -- David Byrne
I need drama in my life to keep making music. -- Eminem
I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. -- Barry Gibb
I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. -- Rickie Lee Jones
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording. -- Timbaland
I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music. -- Debby Ryan
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music. -- Avicii
Americans are good at making dance music. -- Ed Simons
I'm so passionate about making good music. -- Pitbull
I prefer making videos to making music. -- Grimes
Making music is a total hassle, really. -- Max Tundra
I started making music because I could. -- Alanis Morissette
I think I'm making music that's pretty universal. -- Zola Jesus
The Universe is making music all the time. -- Tom Waits
Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me. -- Junaid Jamshed
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell -- Gustav Holst
Making music should not be left to the professionals. -- Michelle Shocked
The human element of making music is what's most important. -- Dave Grohl
There's more to being a musician than just making music. -- Burning Spear
I started making music for myself when I was sixteen. -- Hunter Parrish
Writing a poem is making music with words and space. -- Arnold Adoff
I didn't start making music in order to be famous. -- Mark Ronson
I want to be someone making music/with my coming. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
The life I love is making music with my friends. -- Willie Nelson
Since I started making music, it had always been for myself. -- Skylar Grey
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. -- Dennis Gabor
Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good. -- Ne-Yo
Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool. -- Yael Naim
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. -- Brother Dave Gardner
I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music. -- Horace Panter
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music. -- Danger Mouse
For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration. -- Norah Jones
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. -- Jerry Cantrell
My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant. -- Kid Ink
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. -- Georg Solti
Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. -- Gustav Ejstes
I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing. -- Fetty Wap
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. -- Jose Bergamin
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. -- Luciano Pavarotti
I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. -- Jake Bugg
I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. -- Joan Jett
I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. -- Max Schneider
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. -- Claude Debussy
I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music. -- Jake Bugg
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. -- Alan Jackson
I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music. -- Mike McCready
A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision. -- Reggie Watts
The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine. -- Florence Welch
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. -- Hermann Hesse
The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it. -- Ian MacKaye
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. -- Norah Jones
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better. -- Bill Walton
There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. -- Michael Ondaatje
There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!' -- Afrojack
Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself. -- Kenny G
The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception. -- Grimes
I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again. -- Michael Chiklis
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life. -- Lenny Kravitz
I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together. -- Judith Hill
Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world. -- Joe Cocker
I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general. -- Vince Staples
It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing. -- Gordon Waller
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen. -- Fred Durst
I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though. -- Pharrell Williams
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark. -- Grimes
We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. -- Sean Kinney
I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of. -- Eddie Vedder
As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough. -- Taryn Manning
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. -- Maurice Ravel
In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape. -- Pauline Oliveros
I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys. -- Nick Carter
A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live. -- Sarah McLachlan
I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people. -- Kanye West
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. -- John Coltrane
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. -- Aldous Huxley
I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music. -- Five for Fighting
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. -- John Legend
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. -- Gavin Bryars
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. -- Luciano Pavarotti
To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist. -- DJ Shadow
After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore. -- Blixa Bargeld
For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself. -- Atticus Ross
I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe. -- Son Lux
It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. -- John Hawkes
As far as my inspirations, I just like anyone who is making good music - period. -- Rahki
No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music. -- Jhene Aiko
Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform. -- Benjamin Booker
I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music. -- Shirley Manson
I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need. -- Taylor Momsen
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. -- Steve Hackett
I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music. -- Sia Furler
I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead. -- Patrick Wolf
The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up. -- Liam Gallagher
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. -- Cass McCombs
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. -- John Oates
And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world. -- Kid Rock
Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great. -- Alex Van Halen
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that. -- Sheryl Crow
I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. -- will.i.am
Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks. -- Erik Parker

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