I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
“At the ukulele workshop that summer. He lectured on the four-note chord in the context of timelessness, and described himself then as… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Fate had somehow conspired against me, giving me a life of its choosing rather than my own. No one would really miss… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you… — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you happen to run across a brilliant run of radio songs, where each tie one station goes to commercial, you scan… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.'… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
My windows down, my seats back, My music up, and we ride. Her legs up on my dashboard, And it's just the… — Brian Wright Copy Share Image
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask. I want to… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
Being classy is a culmination of being yourself, being positive, and doing good in all the places you can by all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
