My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our… — Laura Allen Copy Share Image
“If these are ‘talents’ – the ability to sing, or to quickly comprehend and reproduce musical notation – what kind of a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I know people who have sampled gospel music, and then they go to clear the sample, and it's like, 'You can't take… — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends,… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I respect Snoop even aside from the music, just as a man, and especially the way he still represents who he is,… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's… — Liza Richardson Copy Share Image
“Then think of fire, It’s laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it… — Al Jardine Copy Share Image
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And… — Kabir Copy Share Image
That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young,… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. — John Oates Copy Share Image
Sajid-Wajid has been signed on for 'Rowdy Rathore.' Sajid and Wajid are great friends of mine. I am happy that they are… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
“This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
On 'Black Ben Carson,' I had strict no melody thing. I wanted straight, raw, rugged noise music. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll be playing roles for which I'm too long in the tooth, but people who go see musicals… — Ken Berry Copy Share Image
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“We live in an illusion of safety while we hide in caves made of glass looking for trees of concrete. Even our… — Juliano Alves Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think before, in the '80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
“My energy is evil," I said, surprising myself. "It's a loud, obnoxious song. It's sick. It just hurts people. I'm not sunshine… — Willa Strayhorn Copy Share Image
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer… — Scott Hastie Copy Share Image
The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
Music is everything to me. It's the heart and soul of a movie or TV show to me because it can be… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
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