We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience,… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I always listen to music when I write! I basically make a playlist for every essay; sometimes it's just one song, or… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I don't want to follow the map of what the music industry does because I've already lived the industry and I still… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
We didn't want to worry about the formula that has been implanted into our brains - this verse/pre-chorus/chorus format. When we were… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
I have about 10 or 12 guitars, some of which are in non-standard tunings. Mostly I play a clone of my 59… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance -… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got… — David Cook Copy Share Image
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
Generally I'll keep 95% of what I sing on that first scratch vocal take. Sometimes that idea will ferment for a long… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When I first joined the group, I didn't know Jimmy, and I felt a bit shy. He was the big star, and… — John Bonham Copy Share Image
One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were.… — Lukas Haas Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
In a song you can shine a light on a topic and with your voice at a concert you can shine a… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
As a youngster in the little orphanage home in New Orleans, I was the bugler of the institution. When I got to… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this group that I'm… — Watkin Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Everybody in my neighborhood in the '40s, they played pianos. That's how people partied. They didn't try the TV, the radio was… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
