“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I honestly just hope to continue creating music that people can relate to and connect with in a personal way. — Daya Copy Share Image
I got recognition because of film music, but people start recognizing me as an artiste more because of singles. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big… — Kerris Dorsey Copy Share Image
“Music is the love child birthed from the boundless freedom found in dreams and the rapturous opposition faced in life; for that,… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations… — James Young Copy Share Image
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
There's something particular about the way Los Angeles feels in the summertime. It slows down and is hazy and dreamy, and you… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“I may not like performing in musicales, but I love rehearsing with the three of you.” Her three cousins stared at her,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I have been making music since I was a kid. I have written music since I was, like, seven or eight. I… — Joyner Lucas Copy Share Image
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. — Eva Burrows Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It's quite difficult to figure out a common thread among us all as we're five very different people who love different types… — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act.… — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I don't have too much of a pre-show prep. I like to relax, listen to some music maybe, go over my set… — Matt Rife Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it. — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I actually have missed my trainee days. Because, back then, we were surrounded by music all the time. — Rose Copy Share Image
People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad… — David Slade Copy Share Image
Glendale is such a mecca of our fans. They are the most important things. It's the fans and then music, then we… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician. — Montaigne Copy Share Image
In ur eyes I see my world, in ur speech I see my music, in ur arm I see my bed... In… — Arjun Copy Share Image
Actually, it's the beauty of independent music that the artist can feature in his own videos and be the face of it.… — Guru Randhawa Copy Share Image
At the end of the touring on Bitte, looking back on all that stuff, I feel really proud of having written that… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
