I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done.… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played.… — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
“Ethan seemed to revel in Carter's most hated tics. He'd set them to music. The light bounce of notes, starts and stops,… — Ryan Loveless Copy Share Image
It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Right out of school, I did this show called 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.' It is based on a… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope...… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be in that world. But I also understood that being a… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
By the end of Pop's life I wanted to give something back and when I came on board as his musical director… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a… — Shirley Horn Copy Share Image
I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the… — Jeff Healey Copy Share Image
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson -… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
