When I sit down to create music, I can't be disturbed with the past. I look ahead because that's what is important… — James Ingram Copy Share Image
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
In a studio context, the music becomes greater than the sum of its parts. When you have collaboration, you have other people's… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I just kind of transitioned right out of the dance world into the music industry. I started writing and I just fell… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I… — Rila Fukushima Copy Share Image
I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can… — Goapele Copy Share Image
We listen to the same kind of music. You so soo nice, and pretty and funny. Your a great person kinzz and… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you… — Common Copy Share Image
We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to… — Stromae Copy Share Image
It's quite liberating to get to a certain age, 'cos you're not chasing number one hits or trying to be an international… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to an album start to finish, and you don't skip songs. You don't listen to a Paul Simon… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
When you play the old songs, it's awesome and I love it, but it's not work because everyone already knows it and… — Shwayze Copy Share Image
... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the… — Martin Barre Copy Share Image
I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an… — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
When I worked with my uncle, I loved the fact that jazz music demanded that you use your own unique approach. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play… — Yann Tiersen Copy Share Image
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.' — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. — Donal Henahan Copy Share Image
I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that… — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz. — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Definitely for me and my sister, wherever we are the most comfortable is where the best music's going to be made. — Finneas Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop… — Flo Rida Copy Share Image
For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
