I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general.… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. My dad was in a group in the 70s, The Hudson Brothers. Now he's a songwriter… — Sarah Hudson Copy Share Image
While I was recording 'Ziltoid,' the movie 'Mars Attacks' came on TV, I think, six times in one week. So I don't… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
“When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
We [with Cisco Adler] came back to the concept that our music, our lifestyle, and what we stood for was dope. So… — Shwayze Copy Share Image
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing… — Sonny Sharrock Copy Share Image
“There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Where are the stars on this dark, dark, night? Where is there tiny twinkling light? Where is the music? Where is the… — Ann E. Burg Copy Share Image
I liked experimenting with a lot of different styles. So, it always saddens me when I see young people, or even older… — Travis Tritt Copy Share Image
... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night… — Barry Goldberg Copy Share Image
I realized that the people I want to impress most are already in my band. If I just do my best and… — Ed Robertson Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Who invented music? Some one must have made the delight of it possible! With his own share in its joy he had… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“I discovered that the predisposition for languages is as mysterious as the inclination of certain people for mathematics or music and has… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I make music that makes you dance, so I mean, it's appropriate, you know what I'm saying? I make the kind of… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
My parents were into The Mills Brothers, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughn, and all those people sung the most… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, they opened an arts high school. I didn't read music, and I wasn't a trained dancer,… — Shalita Grant Copy Share Image
I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing and producing for other artists. Some people save their best songs for their own albums. I'd rather give… — Missy Elliot Copy Share Image
Folk music - and what people are now perceiving as being folk music - is music that's quite close to the ground.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
“During World War II, rationing in Russia had made vinyl prohibitively expensive, and cheap X-ray film became the bootleg music industry’s substitute.… — Donnie Eichar Copy Share Image
I'll listen to Queens of the Stone Age and think, oh I just wanna make rock music now. And then Ariana Grande… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image