My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody. — Bill Monroe Copy Share Image
I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure. — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music. — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. — Grimes Copy Share Image
For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited. — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
I don't know many musical movements that have women at the forefront like electroclash did. Whatever it lasted, like a few months. — Peaches Copy Share Image
A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that. — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Truth be told, of course, what I enjoy most is reinventing myself and doing new projects where I work in new genres,… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“If we are to understand consciousness—the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us—we need to… — Alva Noë Copy Share Image
“The days are passing so quickly. This is the only time of year when I want to slow time down. I spend… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
The musicians I really looked up to as a kid were the ones who could play everything. — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it). — Dexter Gordon Copy Share Image
I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home. — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world. — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos. — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
“But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?” — Bastille Pompeii Copy Share Image
A lot of times, a bunch of songs have to be written to get to the next really good one. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image