Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere. — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way. — Black Thought Copy Share Image
They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same. — Ricky Nelson Copy Share Image
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the… — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion. — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
The big difference with 'Random Access Memories' and maybe 'Tron' is that we decided to share the experience of making music with… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also… — Joshua Redman Copy Share Image
I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I think kids love reggae music because there's something soothing about it. It's light and it's airy. And dad's music has a… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm… — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating. — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to. — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
I love pop music, but my issue for a while was the way fandoms operate. — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music. — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I hope that country music embraces me because I grew up on it and have a love for the music. — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it. — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse — George Crumb Copy Share Image
One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
