Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Getting to be a musician for ten years is very different from being a musician for a year. You get different stories,… — Lights Copy Share Image
Besides music and charity, fashion is one of my interests that has been growing over the past few years. I think it… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about music is that it tells a story. You can hear the message without having to understand the words.… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not… — Lukas Moodysson Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the science of music. I'm obsessed with the way you can string notes together and they can do something,… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
There are two things that matter when you're making music. First, that you're doing what you love, even if it's crazy and… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I love a good pop song. You know, there's nothing like it. I also just really like music that… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Down is an incredibly important band to me. And there's one other project that may be a little tough for people to… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
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In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over… — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations. — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I've got quite a low voice, so it's not your typical musical theater voice, but I do love musicals; they're a very… — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Certainly it's much more important for me to go to a good movie and spend a nice night with my wife than… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even… — Donovan Bailey Copy Share Image
I'd keep the bay windows open, and neighbors would walk by and say, 'Oh, that's Gina playing music.' They were fascinated. — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You… — Jim Varney Copy Share Image
I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them. — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
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