The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
I grew up loving movie musicals and Idolizing Fred Astalre. I never worked with Fred but I met him once at a… — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and… — Pearl Witherington Cornioley Copy Share Image
People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra .… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
“Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something-… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
If I spend time at the front of the process worrying about connecting themes, then I won't write the best songs. — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations,… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
“Please, please don't ever forget to release your magic, the unity, the music into your homes, into the cars, and into the… — Nothing Sexier Than Freedom Helen Edwards Copy Share Image
Something else is hurting you- that's why you need pot or whiskey,or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think. — Nikkie Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I don't think my two loves - music and food - are that different. They've certainly served me well. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Music has no language. That's something I've come to believe in even more ever since 'Kolaveri Di' happened. I don't deliberately make… — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
When you have four guys in a room writing songs, it different. It's great - that's what makes a band a band.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business.… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is… — David A Vigilanti Copy Share Image
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I like to make songs that are gonna be here for a long time, not for five months that they play on… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
