There's a part of me that is really, really happy with all of my success lately because of what it can get… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The acting part of me is not me. The music side is who I really am and what I want to talk… — Lucy Hale Copy Share Image
I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
“Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
“I couldn't believe how many songs were out there that I'd never even heard of before. It could only mean there were… — Kat Yeh Copy Share Image
As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label… — Ashanti Copy Share Image
The more film festivals, theatrical shows, and music performances and visual arts we have, the less chances there are for war. Art… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Basically my personality, and my talent, and my lyrics are so outstanding that what listeners can tell is that I put so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shining like a work of art Hanging on a wall of stars Are you what I think you are? You're my satellite… — Guster Copy Share Image
She comes to see us and stuff. She likes it I dont think its her favorite kind of music but she has… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I love Mix Tape. It combines three great elements - magic, music and a natural way of performing. I know that every… — Luke Jermay Copy Share Image
If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
He's definitely someone who helped mold and shape hip-hop with his music. I would put him in the category of James Brown,… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
“Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about –… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The coolest thing about 'Stick Season's' success - I guess I can say that without sounding too conceited, hopefully - is I've… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
“Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us--simpatico dudes that we are--while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
IU and I hosted a music program together, and she had told me that she would be writing a song for me.… — Sulli Copy Share Image
You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I've liked music since I can remember and the guitar was always the most attractive thing about music to me at that… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun.… — Halsey Copy Share Image
People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I was always drawn to the roots music, bluegrass, blues, early rock - Sun Records, Elvis [Presley]. And I still love that… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
“I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling towards a… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image