If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your… — Sting Copy Share Image
The fans at our shows in Tokyo love music so much; they're amazing. They give a kind of energy and adrenaline that… — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
If I'm writing the music, and I don't feel like its really connecting inside, then I'll know there's no reason to really… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards… — Angelique Kidjo Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I think that if you listen to the same exact genre of music that you play, it is so easy to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs.… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To calm himself he mentally recited Wilfred J.Funk's 1932 list of "most beautiful words." It was his mantra on restless nights like… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I love Lady Gaga! I think she's incredible. I think she's so clever - you know, about what she wears and when… — Kerry Ellis Copy Share Image
I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary… — James Toback Copy Share Image
“I never thought that history would become one of my life's passions. I never even liked history when I was at school,… — Barbara Quick Copy Share Image
I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself;… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that's what I use. Whenever I cook I think… — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that… — Doug Martsch Copy Share Image
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
My favorite station is BBC Radio 6 Music, in particular Shaun Keaveny's morning show. It's on while I'm dashing around getting ready.… — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to… — Cliff Martinez Copy Share Image
I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at… — Amine Copy Share Image
I would say a great song [is where] you like everything in the song. The lyrics move you, the beat makes you… — Aino Jawo Copy Share Image
I never watched a Heisman ceremony when I was a kid. I didn't even know it was held at the Downtown Athletic… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a magical fantasy. It's really an… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening… — Hal Ketchum Copy Share Image