Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and… — Phil Spector Copy Share Image
“Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a false note.” — Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry. — Victoria Monet Copy Share Image
Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I… — Georgia Cates Copy Share Image
Playing along to CDs is fine, but nothing gets your game together faster than jamming with real live musicians. — Josh Freese Copy Share Image
I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
We didn't say, 'Hey, we're gonna pick a bunch of cover songs,' or, 'We're gonna write an original song that has to… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing'… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is… — Nas Copy Share Image
Hip hop dancing is more like choreography and it's more made up and you have to learn it. This, this Krump and… — Tommy the Clown Copy Share Image
“I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good. — Banks Copy Share Image
“You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
“Those songs [Mary Poppins score] didn't just get under my skin, they became a part of me then and there, and thinking… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can’t fathom.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Being able to use art and music not just to communicate, but to have a positive effect on people, that's significant to… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's… — Ruston Kelly Copy Share Image
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair. — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up. — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The… — Al Green Copy Share Image
I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh,… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image