I don't listen to music for fun. I ain't got enough time for fun! I'm always busy writing my own music. I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music. — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me. — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
Music, reality shows, acting, all of them are ways to express my feelings. So I will continue to try to do my… — Henry Lau Copy Share Image
I used to follow artistes like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia a lot before making a full fledged career in EDM...… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD… — Parker Conrad Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Why do we need schools? Music: we have UTube. Spanish:there's Dora. English: everything's shortened anyway(lol,idk,gtg) Maths: that's why w have calculators. Geography:… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Then, at age 20, I discovered theater sort of by accident. Quite quickly, theater became more important to me than music. I… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
I write songs on a course of time that's comfortable for me. I would probably never write a song from start to… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette. — Barbara Januszkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one. — Wally Amos Copy Share Image
Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense… — Snoh Aalegra Copy Share Image
Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going. — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I love, love, love music - have since I was a kid, and I'm still really into music - and I became… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging. — Jay McShann Copy Share Image
There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies. — Robert Kardashian Copy Share Image
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance. — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
If there is any selfish angle, then it would probably be me just knocking myself in the head, thinking "Is there anybody… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music. — Keith Sweat Copy Share Image
'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
It's important to know all those things, but part of our jobs is to move people along and to make people excited… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image