“There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children… — Gyula Illyes Copy Share Image
“CIA Interrogator: Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists? Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
I come to sing for the people, not for the government. God made the sunshine for everyone and made the moon for… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
“But this...writing about how it feels to listen to music, to have found him--it almost feels like I'm writing a description of how my… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as… — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise...… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little apartment in Los Angeles with my mom and my older brother. He and I looked very… — Terry Dubrow Copy Share Image
College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can… — William C. Rhoden Copy Share Image
I have friends who were friends of mine before I did music and they are my friends now, and we share life… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
These days music composers are singing themselves or making other male artistes sing. It is very tough to find a female single… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
Being in Milwaukee, being in Wisconsin, it's not a big city, it's cold, right? So we have to work for the stuff… — Jordan Poole Copy Share Image
I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of… — Terence Trent D'Arby Copy Share Image
I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
“And so a pattern develops: wake, work cry. sleep. I can't even escape him in my dreams. Gray burning eyes, his lost… — E.L. James Copy Share Image
I think people definitely shouldn't be ignorant in regards to where they're playing. And there's an argument for not taking it out… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Basically [Louise] Brandeis was a Jeffersonian. And you say the timing is great, and it is in a lot of senses, except… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
“The dark organ music filled the Department of Post-Mortem Communications. Moist assumed it was all part of the ambience, although the mood… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the… — Sarah Hughes Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“He was too stupid to have seen me, the moron who was driving the red Ford while having his cell phone glued… — Alan T. McKean Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and… — Doc Severinsen Copy Share Image
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing,… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to… — Gregor Schwellenbach Copy Share Image
I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like… — Grimes Copy Share Image