Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Above all, I'm very genuine with my music. I would never sing about something that I can't stand for. — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Prayrit Seth, my director, has worked with me on most of my songs and videos. It's a very organic process for him… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Getting to connect with new people in new parts of the world every week is a blessing, and when the crowd and… — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like… — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this marriage of… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say. — Nas Copy Share Image
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
Music is primal: when it's done without pretension, you can really feel the shape of someone's soul. — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The music that we listen to these days, everything is right there in your face. There's no real mystery. It's not poetic.… — Ro James Copy Share Image
It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I want to find that happy spot where I am emotionally happy and where I am making music almost every day, that… — Adore Delano Copy Share Image
Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.” — Quinton Skinner Copy Share Image
Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren't much of a canvas, people didn't know that I… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image