If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it. — Bryan Ferry Copy Share Image
I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong. — Himesh Reshammiya Copy Share Image
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
While it is true that I write brand new music for every scene in every new episode of a series, I'm always… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and… — Mac Davis Copy Share Image
Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I remember watching films in my teenage years, and you'd be in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, and then a song would come… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I am a person that believes in different emotions with music. Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
I never start a song thinking that it will be a pop song or super-edgy. I just do what my ears like,… — G Flip Copy Share Image
You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that makes Arch Enemy so unique is that we're five musicians who are all super self-critical… — Alissa White-Gluz Copy Share Image
It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Chip said it was his piano hands - one ain't never doing the same thing as the other.” — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good. — Howard Hanson Copy Share Image
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Life is like a song, you don't know the words right away, you have to learn them as you go along. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
The only thing I had in my mind [when I was 17 ] was that I was going to be a professional… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music. — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir. — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
All my achievements have been great achievements. I have been collaborating with big names and making hits - like my song 'Yosemite'… — Gunna Copy Share Image
Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me. — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
“O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.” — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
But Toto is something that's very near and dear to me, and we feel so fortunate and blessed to have been able… — Steve Porcaro Copy Share Image
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
Music is so important to me that that's got to be the only way I can do it. In the purest possible… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
It just so happens that my father spoke through his music, so his voice and his music are one and the same.… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very… — Shook Copy Share Image
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