“Without music, the prehistoric past is just too quiet to be believed.” — Steven Mithen Copy Share Image
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two… — Mark Deklin Copy Share Image
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
“You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The music, of course, is important, but it's the energy that I bring to it that I think the public appreciate the… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do… — Mike D Copy Share Image
When you don't act right to your family and friends, that's bad, but they also have the opportunity to experience the 'good'… — George Jones Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my dad would always be playing Motown around the house. He loved Stevie Wonder and the Supremes… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite… — Flume Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
“My senses, until now starved of any except visual stimuli, were suddenly assailed by a concentrated, if not distilled essence of the… — John Farebrother Copy Share Image
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I'm not really into the rock n' roll lifestyle; I'm a music geek! — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs. — Dennis DeYoung Copy Share Image
I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me. — Lee DeWyze Copy Share Image
The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I listen to my songs as if it's a song made by some other composer. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image