When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special,… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to… — Thundercat Copy Share Image
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I went back and studied the game, was a student of the game and worked on my craft and dedicated myself, you… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Bands can become absolutely huge and actually be pretty terrible musicians, and bands can be the most amazing songwriters and musicians in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of… — Albert Ayler Copy Share Image
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I have always pursued that dream. But I’ve had to realize, that I… — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some of my favourites... there's the classics like Blur and Oasis and Pulp, Suede and The Charlatans, The La's, The Smiths, The… — Mikey Way Copy Share Image
It's never been about what we want others to see: it's about what we want to see; it's about what we want… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we… — Ruth Brown Copy Share Image
So we've done science songs. We've done historical songs. A lot of people would like us to do more historical songs. Our… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I was first inspired to make music by my cousin Oran. He was making music on an old Mac II by himself… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Katie raises her eyebrows at Dan and looks him up and down. “You’re a good dancer,” she says, a gleam in her… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
The 90s for me was the best era for clubbing. I was having a great time working as a DJ, loads of… — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz… — Randy Sandke Copy Share Image
The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from.… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I don't deal with conflict well, so sometimes things will happen that will make me feel sort of powerless. But instead of… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more,… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it's drawing or dancing or listening to… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We knew what music we liked but not who was from where. As we started to look more into these artists, we… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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