I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Just dwelling on the past, I think it's really important for me to surround myself with positive people and just work really… — Lloyd Copy Share Image
If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Jazz was the beginning of rhythm music, which developed into rock and roll. But what the jazz musicians lost because they were… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative… — Jeremy Jordan Copy Share Image
I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best… — Etta James Copy Share Image
Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy… — John Legend Copy Share Image
It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
There are songs that can really make you sad and cry when you hear them. But it's actually not the song that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for… — Anne Akiko Meyers Copy Share Image
Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
An investment decision in the common stock of a company frequently involves a whole lot of factors interacting ... the one thing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When you hear this chorus Do you miss the way the world was spinning for us? Do you hurt the way that… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more… — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded,… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing… — Nick Heyward Copy Share Image
All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I come from a songwriter background, so essentially with my music, I'm trying to make songs that will last a lifetime and… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me… — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I've been through and what I've accepted. And releasing it has made me… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Iron Maiden and Metallica are bigger now than they ever were. They're playing stadiums across the entire planet. Even though it seems… — Zacky Vengeance Copy Share Image
We're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always… — Kevin Jonas Copy Share Image
It's actually really stereotypical that someone should be 40 and mellow out, but I think it's more about trying to conjure up… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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