To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a… — Goldie Copy Share Image
When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy. — Andre Rieu Copy Share Image
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The reason I write songs I write out of my heart love fear pain hurt sad mad but also when I write… — Courtney Hood Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
“[D]id you ever notice how friendships are a lot like pop songs? They are for girls, anyway. First there's the newness of… — Brando Skyhorse Copy Share Image
I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest.… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I… — Calvin Harris Copy Share Image
When I was a wee baby, if I heard any music, I would just get up in my buggy or my pram… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I just really wanted to be taken seriously in my music and I feel like I've done the reality shows and I've… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices. — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
I just want to make songs that I like and be able to get away with doing music for as long as… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Because music isn't just for fame or money, using it for positive, powerful things is always good. — Koffee Copy Share Image
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about. — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
There is nothing normal about a musician's lifestyle; I don't have a nine-to-five job at the post office. — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
Even if I don't think in visuals about the music while I'm doing it, after the music is finished, it could be… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Am I making… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
'Fitoor,' in a way, signifies my journey through the years. It's a collection of 10 songs that I have written. It's basically… — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people… — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image