Vikram Seth
Related MARCUS SAMUELSSON Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition. TOM CHAPIN MAGGIE STIEFVATER HAROLD BLOOM DAVID BOWIE ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from... ROBERT PALMER I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE A. R. RAHMAN When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun... MADELEINE PEYROUX I never listen to music when I'm writing. BEN FOUNTAIN I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote '... GIN WIGMORE YO-YO MA J. K. SIMMONS After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the son... TOM ARAYA KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition. DANIELA RUAH It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienc... ADAM LAMBERT JON SECADA To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ... DIRK BENEDICT Music always lived with me, like a family tradition. DESIIGNER I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'... AARON TVEIT If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin... AUSTIN CARLILE My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 190... ELLIOTT CARTER The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we&... CHARLIE DANIELS ALEX HONNOLD COLM TOIBIN JAY-Z We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've... ALI SMITH ORSON SCOTT CARD My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spe... RICK ASTLEY ROB BELL JOHN MADDEN The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that... EDDIE TRUNK RUSH LIMBAUGH It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN QUINCY JONES Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ... IAN MACKAYE Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anyt... KENNETH KOCH I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I... WES BORLAND BABYFACE I don't know if they fully grasp (the tradition) yet, but I think they're starting to. It's importan... SHANE FARRELL NICK CAVE PAUL SIMON You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listeni... HARMONY KORINE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ... TOM GLAZER BIG SMO Professional baseball is a dream, but for what they (the Angels) were trying to offer, it wasn't nea... MATT HALL I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music.... SHREYA GHOSHAL We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ... CHRIS STAPLETON My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality musi... PUSHA T JAMILA WOODS I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real li... DUSTIN LYNCH When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro... KAREN O I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never re... GARRET DILLAHUNT I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ea... MIKE POSNER I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a l... TIMBALAND DR. DRE I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really ... MIKE TROUT EMINEM DARREN CRISS STEVE AOKI ALLAN BLOOM CHELY WRIGHT I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each ot... RANDY BACHMAN KENDRICK LAMAR Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book!... EDAN LEPUCKI TOM RACHMAN BRIAN ENO PAULA COLE EDUARDO GALEANO DAVID ARCHULETA CHARLI XCX I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO 'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. COREY TAYLOR If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're wri... PETER MAXWELL DAVIES ANAT COHEN EZRA POUND DAVID LYNCH JAMES WELDON JOHNSON NOAM CHOMSKY If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the musi... DAMIAN LOEB TRUMAN CAPOTE It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is ... GLENN DANZIG One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me i... CHARLIE HADEN TREY ANASTASIO LEONARD COHEN I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out o... WESLEY WILLIS BAHMAN GHOBADI I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anyt... FKA TWIGS DAVE NAVARRO What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be f... WILLIAM KRAFT G-EAZY Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin... CAT POWER I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that ... DON BLUTH
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&... 
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th... 
Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket 
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I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... 
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For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v... 
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,... 
I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin... 
I listen to music constantly while writing. 
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