Music was my passion, and I started out as a singer. It's just natural to me to keep pursuing my music career. — Jessica Jung Copy Share Image
You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental… — Flume Copy Share Image
We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust.… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I used to hang out at the Rainbow Bar and Grill in Los Angeles. It was a legendary rock… — B-Real Copy Share Image
I would say I was, I guess, a toddler when I actually found my passion because, when I was little, I used… — Marsai Martin Copy Share Image
The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it… — Jesse Stone Copy Share Image
You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt… — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
Between my brother and a family of musicians/writers who constantly blasted Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and Tom Petty, I was a mutt. — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
A good song stays in your head because it's catchy, a great song stays because it means something to you. — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been… — Dua Lipa Copy Share Image
I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Robby had a flamenco and folk music background. I was so enamored with watching Robby's fingers crawl across the flamenco guitar strings… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time,… — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze,… — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my… — Kim Nam-joon Copy Share Image
I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never… — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work” — Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Copy Share Image
I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Success for me is to write what I think is a good song. When I'm pleased with it, that, for me, is… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
At some point in my life I thought it was good to specialize, but now I think it's good to build a… — Ashkan Kooshanejad Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
I dance because there's no greater feeling in the world than moving to a piece of music and letting the rest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not? — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
