Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
One of the most important things you need when you're doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I always had a love for music, but I was watching 'Sister Act 2' with Lauryn Hill, and I heard her sing,… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house.… — Riley Smith Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
From alternative to Brazilian to hip-hop to old R&B, that's what we listen to. And we don't just listen to it only… — Taboo Copy Share Image
Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would listen to Juvenile or… — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“I recall one particular sunset. It lent an ember to my bicycle hell. Overhead, above the black music of telegraph wires, a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Feeling my way through the darkness Guided by a beating heart I can't tell where the journey will end But I know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musicians are all about celebrity first and foremost, and I just can't do it. The second any sort of popularity contest comes… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does,… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people… — Dick York Copy Share Image
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm… — Music Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
I would like to go back in time and remind myself that when you're working in music field, it's very easy to… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Rza just used the whole synopsis of the karate flick and capitalised offa that around this music. Some things you find out… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Well never ever be as good on record as we are live because were not a full band unless those kids are… — Chris Carrabba Copy Share Image
Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
“It was a woman's voice, high and sweet, with a strange music in it like none that he had ever heard and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image