When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. — Aulis Sallinen Copy Share Image
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I can understand my popularity with the Indian diaspora, but I do get surprised when non-Indians recognise my music. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to… — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that a long, personal relationship is next to impossible for me. Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress. — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that's coming out. So… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
Like, music and songs, what we do, we can capture history as artists, so that's what I really try to do. — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
I don't really have a career as a jazz musician. I don't really have a career as a classical musician. I don't… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
When that much time goes by, you're really listening to your old music differently. At the time it's written, it was the… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Can't you tell when you're with someone who's listening? She hears you, really hears you. He hears the sadness in your tone… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Go-go is so drum and Congo based. It's almost like music from Africa. The drums like on 'Planet Paradise' are deeply African-rooted.… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
“Loving a band with all your heart is something you understand when it happens to you. On the surface, others can see… — Alex Gaskath Copy Share Image
I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little. — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible. — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. — Zedd Copy Share Image
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. — Brian May Copy Share Image
Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades — Mark Twain Copy Share Image