Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different… — Liz Phair 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
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The music has a better feeling when you're responding to what's going on. Music is like playing handball, playing catch with someone,… — Jaimoe Copy Share Image
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When you write a song you're more or less saying, "This is everyone. I think this is everyone." It doesn't necessarily have… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours.… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some… — Perfume Genius Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with… — Phil Keaggy Copy Share Image
I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good… — Bo Bice Copy Share Image
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest,… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
“The melody drifted into an aching silence. Austin lifted his head, and she saw his tears, trailing along his cheeks, glistening in… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I had no problem with Ritchie. Ritchie and I never argued. We never had a problem. I think I was always able… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
“You might call them the icing on “life’s cake,” but music, laughter and the enjoyment of eating are the toppings that flavor… — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
I think my legacy is important because my songs - perhaps more than those of any other songwriter I know - cover… — Donovan Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
“They also keep a horned cow as proud as any queen; But music turns her head like ale, And makes her wave… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny… — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
People love to hear music on their personal devices, but the issue really becomes, if you're able to download music, you should… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“listening to music. When we get home, we have to wake her. So no, I wouldn’t recommend her.” Rasbach nods, makes a… — Shari Lapena Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share… — Lianne La Havas Copy Share Image
Young children especially are receiving so much of the world through their ears and their eyes, particularly if they're pre-literate. So engaging… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
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