I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique… — Tony MacAlpine Copy Share Image
It's great to compose music just for my own enjoyment, but that I have been able to make a lot of new… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
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I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
There's never been anything else in my life that inspired me at all. It's crazy, but I've always loved music and I've… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in… — Pink Copy Share Image
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I don't know how well I work in traditions. I don't know if it's just the way I listened to music growing… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness,… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Success is being artistically fulfilled and happy. You can't control how people see your movie or how much money it makes...and the… — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
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I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
There are kinds of unity other than those of the explicit and systematic unity that Poole is attacking. There are kinds of… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band,… — Bent Saether Copy Share Image
When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
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I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
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Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane… — Richard Betts Copy Share Image
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For whatever reason, all my friends are musical wizards and in great bands, but yeah, it really skipped over me. It's one… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
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You can just sit in your car or get in the shower and make up a song, sing a whole melody and… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
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