The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just… — Kyle Copy Share Image
Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breathtaking rightness. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands. — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini… — James Keller Copy Share Image
I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming.… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you… — Bijou Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm sort of standing on T-Bone Walker's shoulders, Les Paul's shoulders, Lightnin' Hopkins' shoulders, Muddy Waters' shoulders, you know? And if I've… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
A formidable game of 'Name That Influence' could be based on the music of the seductive rock duo Girls: The band's first… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
