Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning,… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in incorporating real places into the music I make. Bringing the outside into the controlled world of… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I loved 'Terminator 2' as a teenager and 'Sound of Music' when I was a kid. I also loved 'Requiem For A… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I'll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you'll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“It was my kind of song: fast and fun and exuberant,the lyrics tumbling out almost faster than my ears could follow them,some… — Anthony Rapp Copy Share Image
Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I cannot sit back and think that I am the best. I have to prove again and again that I am the… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I… — Lil Tracy Copy Share Image
Growing up, even finding all those notes that you write in first grade to your future self of like what you want… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Byelorussian songs, if you've ever heard them are slightly monotonous, even mournful yet they do have a certain melancholy charm and compassion… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years. — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
“That's what's so inspiring about music, that it excites and conveys all the wealth of a man's thoughts and at the same… — Josef Bor Copy Share Image
I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long. — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
“It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I never taught people where to step on '2', because when I learned how to dance there was no '2'. We just… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you… — Isaac Hayes Copy Share Image
I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious… — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
Music is everything to me. Without music, I wouldnt be here in America now, and I would have been a completely different… — Yuya Matsushita Copy Share Image
