I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable… — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
I never did music for awards. I did music because I love it and I do music because I love singing and… — Jay Sean Copy Share Image
“He felt the same carnal urge to claim, to mate, to please her. But above that sang a new melody, one he… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“What pretensions humans have! Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know… — Lou Rawls Copy Share Image
The night we released 'Why This Kolaveri Di?,' I went home and played all the songs I had composed since I was… — Anirudh Ravichander Copy Share Image
There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I've been interested in hip-hop since it first appeared: the fact that it was born not in the music industry but on… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“Delicate, hauntingly uncertain music floated out of the house. Vane heard it as he walked up from the stables. The lilting strains… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
I'm just me, I like my own type of music,have my own favorite colors,and my own way to talk and think.I can… — Abigail Morrison Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too,… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“Holding my hands, kissing the palms, his smile is ecstatic, jubilant, adoring, and the song playing speaks for him, “Have you ever… — Poppet Copy Share Image
If one person feels the way I felt when I first fell in love with country music, then I'm doing my job. — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not more into one scene than any other, and that's why I feel very lucky to be able to go into… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
“You exist. You matter. You have value. You have every right to wear your hoodie, to play your music as loud as… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I… — Max Tundra Copy Share Image
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others.… — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
I want to be like Ben Folds. Everyone loves his music, but you could be sitting next to him on a plane… — Eric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there. — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I used to work at a catering hall in Hauppauge. Anybody who works as a server in a catering hall, more power… — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
When I'm coming up with melodies, it feels like I'm in this other meditative state you can't describe. — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I must have been about 13 when I first heard Linkin Park and, to be honest, music had never played that much… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and… — Tanya Tucker Copy Share Image
