I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches.… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which… — Louie Bellson Copy Share Image
“He’d been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that’s… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
“Music is the great unifier. It doesn’t matter which country you’re in or what language is being spoken, the fans just magically… — J.M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I feel like we've figured out how to write Fall Out Boy music, but I don't really feel like we've written the… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
They sought out rap music to attack, but you don't hear that anymore because it made too much money. They use Che… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something… — Scarface Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. We were in your old Civic. Nine Inch Nails was turned up on the… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized… — Coco Lee Copy Share Image
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
“There are more guys than girls in jazz. Next-to-no lady trumpeters (oh, there are a few) but it doesn't matter because, for… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook.… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
I don't really reach out, it has to be organic. If we're in a studio setting and we're feeling the vibe, that's… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
I think it took me until - my twenties were really a time of exploration and experimentation with different groups and different… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their… — Carl Orr Copy Share Image
Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in… — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
If you feel like you have no other option in life but to follow your musical path, then do it. If you… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
I swear to God, Ethel Cain, like, possessed me. It sounds so corny, but almost immediately, it was no more gothic churches,… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
“The essence of romance is an extremely powerful life-giving sensual force for change. I view the romantic periods in our history as… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
Silly of me to go around and brag about the love I found and say you're the best, well, I can't tell… — Deniece Williams Copy Share Image
“There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Fifteen minutes before I got the notification that 'Julie Michaels has tagged you in a post,' I was listening to her music… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder that this has… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
