Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like Im making music because we write it together and produce it together. Ive got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. – Ellie Goulding
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. – Carlos Santana
Ive spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. – Renee Fleming
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, its time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer. – Garrison Keillor
I filmed Albatross before I got Downton. Its a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this familys life, like a whirlwind. Shes ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play. – Jessica Brown Findlay
My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, Hear me clap, hear the music. I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear. – Danica McKellar