The Beatles, they brought a whole new dimension to pop music. Of course, the psychedelic period is much more interesting to me,… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
Basically we would go to places and we would see bands trying to sound like us opening up for us, 1-2-3-4 with… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just… — Richard Betts Copy Share Image
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be… — John Musker Copy Share Image
The best advice came from my manager, Anne, who told me to never compare myself to other people and to be true… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
I got that real good feel good stuff Up under the seat of my big black jacked up truck Rollin' on 35s… — Luke Brian Copy Share Image
Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
“My hands moved up and down the keyboard, summoning great waves of music, each one crested with sorrow, loneliness, and anger. Tides… — Sarah Beard Copy Share Image
First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music,… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing,… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and… — Matt Wertz Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Peacock and DeJohnette have the same kind of integrity as Jarrett in their life and their work, the same values and commitment.… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
