Ravi Shankar was an incredible teacher. I sat on stage with Robby Krieger and studied at his school of Indian music here… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone… — Marie Daulne Copy Share Image
I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Just as life is made up of day and night, and song is made up of music and silence, friendships, because they… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
“Mister Singer reminded her of this music. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, you… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Jeanie McCarthy is the love of my life. She's the only woman who really understands me, my music, and my heart. It… — Jimmy Scott Copy Share Image
Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The… — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
There's always those few people that are like, 'Why don't you play any of the material off your first two records?' And… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“62. It is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and… — Colin Escott Copy Share Image
There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was… — Jessica Mauboy Copy Share Image
Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer,… — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
Playing live is much more natural for me. The instant reaction and the feedback from the audience is great for me. I… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think what interests me the most is when the two things are developed at the same time, which certainly feels natural… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
