Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel like you're working all alone out there as a band and you have no soulmates in how you see… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
As we grow, our music grows, and it's very natural and organic, and it's nothing that's forced, which is really, really important… — Ally Brooke Copy Share Image
Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“I got to know [teen music] as we absorb music in passing but can remember only its seriousness and weight.” — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
“He is better than warm fall colors better than beautiful music better than doughnuts and coffee” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs. — Mabel Copy Share Image
I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to… — Borns Copy Share Image
I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything. — Eminem Copy Share Image
Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?” — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at… — James Young Copy Share Image
We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that… — David First Copy Share Image
I love my job as a musician, and I am filled with gratitude that good people support my endeavors. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I can only handle so much electronic music. That's why I love Coachella. You can see Ice Cube, then Axl Rose is,… — Tom Sandoval Copy Share Image
Not all deaf people are the same, every deaf person will have their own unique experience with music. — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into… — Dhanush Copy Share Image
That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. — Drake Copy Share Image