When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that… — Doug Martsch Copy Share Image
I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
Working in kitchens with Mexicans you always listen to the Spanish channel and that's what I use. Whenever I cook I think… — Action Bronson Copy Share Image
I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton,… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
We're constantly hearing new influences everywhere. I say "new influences," but a lot of the stuff that influenced the record was music… — Gym Class Heroes Copy Share Image
I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the… — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy… — Jennifer Flackett Copy Share Image
We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I think you are always influenced by your surroundings and where you grow up. Your environment is always one of the things… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
I'm mainly a dancer, but I've been offered to write songs on albums this year, and that's really cool. I never thought… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Are we intelligent rock music? I just think that we chose to write about different sorts of subjects. I'm much more interested… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk,… — Manfred Mann Copy Share Image
I remember playing Conway Twitty's record "It's Only Make Believe" over and over, wondering, "How do they get that sound?" Elvis inspired… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think that if you listen to the same exact genre of music that you play, it is so easy to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You never know what will spark a student's interest and feed the flame of learning. For me, all subjects are connected: writing,… — Elizabeth Rusch Copy Share Image
'Power' came in August. February 2014, 'Empire' ended. That whole time, I was like, 'You know what, let me just take a… — Rotimi Copy Share Image
I've never went into the studio looking for a certain direction for my next production. I make music that I enjoy and… — Nicky Romero Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs.… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
As more people get into indie bands and alternative music, they're also getting more into other genres that fit those categories, like… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
I want to convey that there is hope? that we're a world that is in turmoil but there is hope. I'm always… — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
“The first strains of organ music filled the church. Blake. His playing brought Livia a wide, warm smile. The music was supposed… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
All my songs usually borrow from my own life but pull from fantasy or other people's stories that you hear, or something… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
“I do not care much about the mysteries of the universe, unless they come to me in words, or in music maybe,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
