That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
It's always hard for me to put the pieces together when listening to a finished album that I was a part of… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into,… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or… — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
“This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Boy you got my heartbeat running away, beating like a drum and it's coming your way..can't you hear that boom, badoom,boom,boom, badoom,… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think… — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
Even when I was studying musical theater in college, after I would have theory at 8 in the morning and be on… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look… — Kate DeAraugo Copy Share Image
“All I know is that my life is filled with little pockets of silence. When I put a record on the turntable,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She saw the London of the future. Not the vision popular just then: a soaring whirl of machinery in motion, of moving… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The gospel of Jesus points us and indeed urges us to be at the leading edge of the whole culture, articulating in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I think, as musicians, that's really all we want is to keep working. We want to have a reason to be, and… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend… — Tony MacAlpine Copy Share Image
I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
I think there are lots of things that people think are so different but they're not. People think there is a huge… — Jim James Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
“Music can be a powerful adjunct to the healing process. And music is one of the safest medicines you'll ever find. You… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers… — Eric Zorn Copy Share Image
I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not a boots/heels type of person,I love sneakers.I'm not a dress kind of a person,I love T-Shirts and a jacket..I'm the… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in… — Patti Page Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was… — Clairo Copy Share Image
“The story of the rapper and the story of the hustler are like rap itself, two kinds of rhythm working together, having… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing.… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I had no idea I would become a musician; I fell into it. First, I had a band called Fancypants Hoodlum. It… — Peaches Copy Share Image
I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed… — Hozier Copy Share Image
