Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I listened a lot to Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. I liked the music, and it did help with learning slang and how… — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
“In trying to capture the beautiful mystery, this monk had invented written music. Not yet notes, what he’d written became known as… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to… — Robyn Copy Share Image
I would definitely say I'm predominantly a pop artist, obviously, but my music is different. It's not just top-40-radio-type music. — Madison Beer Copy Share Image
I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
“I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to… — Hunter Reveur Copy Share Image
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Before I came to WWE, they sent me samples of all of the entrance music, so I told them, 'I don't use… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
If we have to put music into baskets, then the progressive rock bands I fell in love with as a teenager made… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“The room was full with voices, loud music and beautiful people milling about everywhere. But all I noticed was her; beautiful, elegant… — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning. — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Because of my methodology and my sensibilities to write songs, I'm not very comfortable with the notion to rush in any creative… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle… — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I… — Page Hamilton Copy Share Image
The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only… — Derrick May Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Can you touch the root that feed us? Can you hear the words that I say? Can you feel the music move… — Omnia Copy Share Image
YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other… — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
“You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for business That's why they're called business socks It's business, it's business… — Flight of the Conchords Copy Share Image
The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played. — Jim Dickinson Copy Share Image
That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job -… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The beat comes from your heat, the lyrics comes from your head, and the words comes from your soul. you need you… — Shar-rae Copy Share Image
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Depending on how I'm feeling that day or the music I'm listening to, I will pick appropriate lighting to help create the… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out… — Carole King Copy Share Image