When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small… — Charlotte Caffey Copy Share Image
“You have millions of fans. Everyone around the world loves your songs. How can that not be enough?" "Because music can't tell… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers… — Rakim Copy Share Image
When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They… — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
Music is this medium to express who I am and what I've been through and my thoughts and what my feelings on… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta… — Dan Bern Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
I was just a freak and really shy and self-conscious and modest. The pendulum swung so far when I started writing pop… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
Everyone was saved once by music. So I decided to REALLY work on my songs and not just "play" - to make… — Marilou Copy Share Image
It's always been about the songs for us. It doesn't matter about all the image stuff. We're really about making songs that… — Chuck Comeau Copy Share Image
People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Another thing that I like and that's fun for me is to try and talk and play music at the same time,… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Love. The world is so full of love. Love fills the sky. Love is spread all over the ground. Music is love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I know what people want. I know what everybody wants - I know what the streets want, I know what the suburbs… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director… — Ennio Morricone Copy Share Image
I think the first thing that you need to detach yourself from is numbers, because music has now splintered off into so… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
