I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I felt this pressure to just be the singer in my family or the musician in my family. But once I had… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I… — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
“approach and technique, or else you risk mixing them together and end with up a style of music called fusion,” — Damien Peters Copy Share Image
The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta,… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Whatever the means of delivery, whatever the technological and corporate structures, music will always be about groups of talented individual performers communicating… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
When I began writing songs, there was a pretty direct line between what was happening in my life and what I wrote… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
“Folk music was not approved of in Llamedos, and the singing of it was rigorously discouraged; it was felt that anyone espying… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
“You must be like the mourning bird, do you remember? That it’s in the process of striving for her perfect song that… — Lee Fullbright Copy Share Image
I really don't see the point of making music if you don't love it, and I'm lucky enough to say I love… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan. — MNEK Copy Share Image
Music permeates everything I do. I love everything from Grace Jones to Nicki Minaj to Underworld to D.J. MikeQ and beyond. Music… — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all… — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids. — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals. — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta Copy Share Image
My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them.… — Kurtis Blow Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me… — Gary Lucas Copy Share Image
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff. — Yellowman Copy Share Image
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
