My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Recording in Nashville was absolutely essential to get the sound, the musicians, the atmosphere, the warmth... There are just cult places like… — Roch Voisine Copy Share Image
“Perfect Joy (excerpts) Is there to be found on earth a fullness of joy, or is there no such thing? . .… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I was without my own place for nearly two years. It's such a cliche to be a homeless musician in New York,… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not… — Drake Copy Share Image
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“Fame is not so impossible for people with charisma, passion and talent. Being famous just means you have fans, and even one… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
“She was in Paris, in a dazzlingly lit hospital room, listening to music on the radio. Music you wanted to dance to.… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“lemonade, suntan lotion, books, espadrilles, sunglasses, colored pens, and music, which he listened to with headphones, so that it was impossible to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed dancing and going clubbing. I've always been interested in electronic music. I would love more than anything to see… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
“Zhi yin. Jem had told her once that it meant understanding music, and also a bond that went deeper than friendship. Jem… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In the hands of someone who does not appreciate or understand music, the instrument is just a lump of wood, but in… — Jason Luke Copy Share Image
It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone… — Rahsaan Roland Kirk Copy Share Image
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“The musicians-how shall one begin to describe them? All this time they have been there, playing in a mad frenzy-all of this… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people,… — Dave Liebman Copy Share Image
I think sometimes, especially in country music, the fans feel so close to an artist that they think they have a right… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call… — Sam Phillips Copy Share Image
I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful… — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I'm on that good kush and alcohol I got some down bitches I can call I don't know what I would do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally,… — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that… — Rita Coolidge Copy Share Image
When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“A penny for the moat, where all the ashen song be wrote—a tune for man, so long eloped in hours of decision… — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead.… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from… — Eminem Copy Share Image
The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
