When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He… — Wayne Shorter Copy Share Image
“For those who listened attentively to his strong voice, filled with anxiety and, at times, breaking with despair, Shostakovich had become a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Performing music is the job that has the most to do with the belief in the existence of a soul. I deal… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
I write these songs and I like the idea of letting the band interpret it as they will. This band is like… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday,… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling… — Steven Price Copy Share Image
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
What we've noticed is that people latch onto our music, and are very, very supportive of it, even almost defensive about it.… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
“And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The mixtapes, and a lot of our music, it comes from a place of fandom and appreciation and of respect and of… — Dan Smith Copy Share Image
Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
I never get enough of the adrenaline rush of hearing good music played live and played loud like this. Hearing these songs… — David Moody Copy Share Image
The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
What is good is what it's going to lead to, like the song "Jai Ho." If good numbers are going to come… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
“Most of us lead or are led by lives of patterned regularity. Diurnally, surprises are relatively few. And except for economic or… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going… — Moby Copy Share Image
To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
“I was surrounded by silence and Tristan was music. So much music. All the time. Streaming in my eardrums 24-7. Serenading me… — Jessica Brody Copy Share Image
The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing… — Elton John Copy Share Image
On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm.… — Alexander Carmichael Copy Share Image
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
We have songs and we have smiles; that is the beauty of 3HO. We have many, many songs and we have very,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's… — Sia Copy Share Image
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have really meaningful deep sexual experiences or you experience attraction but it may be fleeting or may it be something… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
“Third, hear our loss of focus on the gospel in our songs. This is no comment on musical styles and tastes, but… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
