I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you… — Michael Schenker Copy Share Image
People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate… — Katy B Copy Share Image
Listening to Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven while I write. Its not fair to just call it music; its audible emotion. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
When I'm on the road I get to read, play golf and do what I love to do - play music. Not… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
“Well, what’s the point of being a rock star if I can’t bang the groupies?” Rolling my eyes, I found myself muttering,… — S.C. Stephens Copy Share Image
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I didn't make music until I was about 18. I'd been playing my whole life, but I wasn't putting it out because… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
I got 'Power' on my own through my agent and my team. I didn't know 50 until I got on the show.… — Rotimi Copy Share Image
I have no clue as to where my interest and love for music came from. In fact, I have never learnt any… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
Luckily, I've the ability to express my music exactly the way I create it because I sing my own compositions. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it… — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French… — French Montana Copy Share Image
Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
“heaven is high and deep, and its lower air is music; in the upper regions the music may pass, who knows, merging… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
The idea is that we're always going to have a good live show, and we love to pay our music and write… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a… — Renzo Rosso Copy Share Image
“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
'NME' and 'Melody Maker' were saying I was the next Lou Reed or Van Morrison. So, everyone has their own version as… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image