The current state of music journalism is not bad, but it's not great at all. Some of the hip-hop stuff people get… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I was raised in a musical house. Marvin Gaye. Boyz II Men. Jodeci. My mom always played that Toni Braxton song, 'Un-Break… — Lou Williams Copy Share Image
All my life, I had loved music and been in choir, and I have a degree in music, but I never planned… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
There's a feeling that you get when you write songs where... it feels like it's destined to do something. Then sometimes you… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
“...music does not mean anything at all. You cannot ask it to speak to you in such concrete terms. It can evoke,… — Imogen Robertson Copy Share Image
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
There's something about the scale of what Taylor has done that is unlike anything I've ever felt or known in my entire… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life." Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later… — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
With 'Minecraft,' I've started creating serene ambiance music. As the game went on to become famous, people started identifying me as the… — C418 Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
“Loving music had pushed all of us off the track- away from the normal pursuit of career, mate, and family, on an… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they… — Vicente Fernandez Copy Share Image
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career,… — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
The streets helps you a lot in music, cause it let's you know that you can't trust nobody and that nobody's gonna… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record… — Moby Copy Share Image
I take inspiration from books, movies, television, music - it all goes in the hopper. Depending on the project, I'm drawing from… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still… — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Doing voice work is more like recording music that people are going to listen to. You're creating an oral experience using whatever… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
As far as the mechanics of how the music was made, there's no denying: Endtroducing was extremely simple. That's not to denigrate… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I love Kanye. He's literally the only person that challenges me. He has an overwhelming love for music also, and that's why… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I can make a record with six-part string arrangements and the best musicians in the world and have it be not genuine.… — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing… — Moby Copy Share Image
You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
There were a lot of R&B groups that were my heroes, but the funny thing about my career and the way it… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
