I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people… — Mitski Copy Share Image
Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
I was into the 'Dennis The Menace' comic strip long before I got into music, and it still makes me chuckle. — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I think as a music listener you have your rock and roll dreams. I personally wouldn't want to apply that necessarily, mainly… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be… — India Arie Copy Share Image
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with… — Yuna Copy Share Image
But I can say that the business has changed drastically since I started at 8 years old. Everything from the way you… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I can't be like, 'This week I'm going to be a musician, and next week I'm going to be a mom.' It… — Lights Copy Share Image
Music is how I unwind. I love going to see bands or DJs at a festival or a dive bar. My taste… — Daniel Ricciardo Copy Share Image
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five for Fighting Copy Share Image
If u feel u are walking alone in life..just put headphones in n start moving ur feet on the beet it feels… — Purvish Copy Share Image
It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
I look up to the people who keep on dancing even after the music has stopped, because those are the people who… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do… — Maluma Copy Share Image
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are… — Etta James Copy Share Image
When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity. — Jann Klose Copy Share Image
To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my… — Selena Copy Share Image
My favorite music is jazz, actually. It's what I listen to, it's what I was raised on, and it's what I prefer… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image