I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for… — Nadia Ali Copy Share Image
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
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There is a silver lining to every cloud and there's some awesome songs that have come from some really like bad experiences,… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable -… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
“Not all music should be functional. Any culture, and all cultural levels, need music that challenges conventions and pushes the boundaries. To… — Brian A. Wren Copy Share Image
There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can… — PSY Copy Share Image
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
It's been amazing to create with one another because we're so different when it comes to music. We love different genres. So… — Dinah Jane Copy Share Image
My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to know wreckage, dreck, and waste, but these are the materials and so are the slow lift of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry... And whether that means selling… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me… — Prince Copy Share Image
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that… — Arca Copy Share Image
I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
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You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
You go to a show and you know the crowd is there because they like the music, not because everybody else was… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I know that women in the music industry get treated a lot differently than men. I've seen it firsthand with somebody in… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have the greatest band and when you add a symphony orchestra to the mix it brings all of… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music… — Dave Rowntree Copy Share Image
I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep.… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
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