“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.” — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember. — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of… — Hunx Copy Share Image
I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
If the media keeps playing a bad track 500 times a day for financial reason, obviously the common listener will only end… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it… — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“I had seen him on campus before. He was always wearing this yellow sweatshirt and giant headphones. The kind of headphones that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I understand why people do reality TV talent shows, I just don't think it's good for music. It's karaoke. What three people… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument,… — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
Ultimately, some stream of stars aligned, and people have gotten to hear my music, and with that, there's no more barrier. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to… — Daniel Johns Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble. — Rayvon Owen Copy Share Image
Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
“Art is sacred. Punk rock is freedom. Expression and right to express is vital. Anyone can be artistic.” — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
I signed at Sony and suddenly they've started to take an interest in Israeli musicians and to listen more, and I send… — Dennis Lloyd Copy Share Image
“The music was scraping me from within, but I needed it more than anything. To prove to myself that I am still… — Alison Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
It struck me that it would be fun to just play stuff with Hauschka. Not even have a project in mind, but… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
I want to have hit records, but I'm not searching to say, 'All right, I need this to be in the club.… — Damian Lillard Copy Share Image
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal.… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that I would go to Miley and my dad for advice, and I get that they're very successful and very… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs. — Jennifer Holliday Copy Share Image
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