Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
“The music was loud but mellow. It was a mix-tape of ballads but by heavy metal artists. All the songs said the… — Dave Newman Copy Share Image
“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I personally feel like the end product is always better when you can make a collective. It's like a band. You can… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
“ taciturn , adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98,… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great… — Asher Monroe Copy Share Image
“Once Conner was dragged out of the room, I directed the musicians to play. Then, exhausted, I fell into my father's throne.… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I was trying to… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I'm really into everything. Something I've been asked throughout the years I've done the show is, "What kind of music are you… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Musicians - we're not doctors. We're not saving people's lives. We're not going out and changing the world. We're not coming up… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than… — Daniel Stamm Copy Share Image
Whenever you're feeling sad, skip the parts where you listen to sad music, think of all the bad times, or watch a… — Haley Knight Copy Share Image
You gotta get up early in the morning to mess with me. I mean, I'm a businessman first-you gotta let the business… — Ludacris Copy Share Image
In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I have nothing to prove. I just want to follow the music. I love making records. I love playing live. That's it.… — Mike Dirnt Copy Share Image
When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but… — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
The '60s weren't my cup of tea. I never bought that philosophy that, you know, we're all brothers and that'll solve everything.… — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it’s a conversation: asking,… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
Nothing's difficult. I'm having a good time. I look at this as a total blessing, you know, and as myself being fortunate… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
“We are duplicitous, we're blind- and it is hard to live, trusting only in life: earthly life is a murky translation from… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a…” quote by Ketch Secor](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/216/ketch-secor-28477_american-music_i-enjoy-writing-songs-that-could-have-be_1676687.jpg)
