My father was responsible for me starting in music. He's always stood behind me. — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. .. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward. — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so… — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want… — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Every Christmas Eve, we used to listen to evensong live from King's College chapel in Cambridge, and I'm almost ashamed to admit… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts… — K'naan Copy Share Image
“I've assembled a pretty good collection of mid-'70s New York punk classics on tape: Dead Boys, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Heartbreakers,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Inspiring girls to write their stories and play their own instruments is something I'm passionate about, as it's not championed. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself,… — Lil B Copy Share Image
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Anytime you spend six months on a song (Born to Run), there's something not exactly going right. A song should take about… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think? — Robert Morris Copy Share Image
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we… — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“MUSIC expressed what cannot be said and on which it is IMPOSSEBLE TO BE SILENT.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I feel very good when songs are recreated or different singers sing the same song. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I am really thankful to the audiences that they have appreciated all my songs and I have managed to touch their soul. — Mohit Chauhan Copy Share Image
I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18. — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us. — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
“Tell me why you love music, Madeleine; how it affects you.”…“I can hide within it, surrounded in beauty, rather than a witness… — M.S. Willis Copy Share Image
I can't lie: We have made some dogs over the years. Every album we did wasn't great, you know. — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point. — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am. — Banks Copy Share Image
Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
'Turtle' is one of our favorite ballad songs that we've written. It is very quiet but also so bright. — Momo Hirai Copy Share Image
