We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us,… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably… — Miguel Migs Copy Share Image
I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
“One might have supposed one’s self at an opera in listening to the voices in my aviary. There were duets and trios,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“Steve Isaacs (MTV VJ): When I was hired at MTV, in August of '91, I was "musician guy." I had long hair,… — Mark Yarm Copy Share Image
We wanted to write songs that we really like that incorporate everything. It seems a lot of bands want to stick with… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
“We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music, involuntarily, even if we are not consciously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve… — Marc Ribot Copy Share Image
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, you get traditional music that's had… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Ever since I started, I think Bollywood has gone through a lot of changes. Film producers now want to experiment with their… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
“Yet it is hard to see why artistic creation would be safe from the algorithms. Why are we so confident that computers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Give yourself a winter night, long candles, unfamiliar music, a typewriter, keyboard, an instrument, or canvas, to set fire to your mind.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as… — Bert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Celestial music blended with the sounds of rushing waters, and they harmonized to produce a heavenly experience. The music wrapped around her… — Anita Estes Copy Share Image
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.' The composer, Derrick Wang, has degrees in music… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Selling a band predicated on nothing is always an interesting proposition, and of course, the fact of the matter is that I… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
I was into all sorts of music as a kid. I was very curious about ethnic music and different styles. I loved… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
Telugu and Tamil industries keenly watch Malayalam movies and are appreciative of the content, be it 'Ustad Hotel,' 'Premam' or 'Bangalore Days.'… — Gopi Sundar Copy Share Image
I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to… — Paul Stookey Copy Share Image
There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I remember Missy Elliot: seeing how she carried herself, made her music, and presented herself as an artist. That… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
“Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex… — Terje B. Englund Copy Share Image
I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don't refuse to make mainstream music, which is… — Ben Drew Copy Share Image
To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual… — David Michod Copy Share Image
![“I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6b7/bruce-springsteen-546_audience_i-always-write-with-an-audience-in-mind_1185905.jpg)
