My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated…

When I first got into the studio once again, and I started hearing the beats, the anger and bitterness was coming out of me.…

— Tony Sunshine

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music…

— Elliott Carter

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

— Elliott Carter

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

— Elliott Carter

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there…

— Elliott Carter

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering.…

— George Steiner

Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them.…

— Joe Louis Walker

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some…

— Rachel Cohn

I was born with music inside me

— Ray Charles

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which…

— Kevin Parker

You know, when you are doing a musical you have no life - you are doing eight shows a week, so you can't be…

— Leslie Uggams

My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.

— Rickey Medlocke

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

— Benjamin Britten

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

— William Shakespeare