I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not… — John Talabot Copy Share Image
Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I kept thinking about how ironic it is how people who live in places where there is diversity tend to love it… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
To me, that's the biggest problem with hip-hop today is the fact that everyone believes that all of hip-hop is rap music,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
“Outside the house is a world where the shelves are stocked, where radio waves are full of music, where young men walk… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when… — El-P Copy Share Image
I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done.… — Tony Levin Copy Share Image
Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
My audience here in America is so eclectic. It's a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. Each time… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
“In music, musicians must be able to read musical notes and have developed the skill to follow the music from their studies.… — Inna K. Shingareva Copy Share Image
For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself,… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time,… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
There's nothing that helps clear my mind and improve my mood more than sweating in a room with my friends to some… — Anna Kaiser Copy Share Image
My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and… — DMX Copy Share Image
“Viewed from above, on the mainmast shroud, they seemed suddenly so small, this little circle, making music, clustered on a floating stage,… — Harvey Oxenhorn Copy Share Image
When you set out to carry on a tradition as deep rooted as folk music is, you've got to have your story… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“Some people's glasses are half full. I'm the one drinking them. Some people have forgotten that Pluto is still a planet. I… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“In the years since, I learned that when I am missing Berk or Asta, I can play my tears through my instruments.… — Krista McGee Copy Share Image
“It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
You would probably think that rock music is an urban phenomena, but the main reason for doing it in '68 was so… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
