Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional… — Colbie Caillat Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being… — John Simm Copy Share Image
For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichéd, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
“I was in a fast-food restaurant for the first time in my adult life, an enormous and garish place just around the… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I started writing songs in high school. And eventually, I got some songs recorded by some major artists, mostly because I was… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm volatile, up-tempo, quick to react and passionate. People often think all that high-energy stuff is just for the stage, but that's… — Keith Flint Copy Share Image
I'd got married and wanted to have kids, so had kids, brought them up, did other things, and slowly got back into… — Kim Wilde Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four… — Guy Oseary Copy Share Image
I don't own a gun. I'm a pacifist. I am a critic of commercial gangsta rap music. I don't believe you change… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
For a long time I wasn't listening to music, to the rock and roll stuff on the radio, because it would cause… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I remember looking at my iTunes and was like, 'I haven't listened to an album in about three months.' What happened? I… — James Righton Copy Share Image
“To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
“A producer is a man with a dream. I say, ‘I don’t write, I don’t direct, I don’t act, I don’t compose… — Larry Truman Copy Share Image
Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older… — Piggy D Copy Share Image
I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs.… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I loved my time at MTV because the music was critical; the music was our thrust. That's what the channel was all… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at… — French Montana Copy Share Image
I love my family's music because I love it. It's good. I listen to the Winans all the time. I listen to… — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who… — Boudleaux Bryant Copy Share Image
