As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can… — Edward Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“and it goes, the music just goes, without faltering, without hesitation, not depleted through repetition, but enriched; and as it goes- without… — Evan Dara Copy Share Image
Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
“In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I am unfamiliar with this musical selection, Justin. What are we listening to?” “This? It’s ‘Shine.’ David Gray. I love his stuff,… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“Cope’s bot can string together notes that weave in and out with the power of Beethoven or the finesse of Mozart. That… — Christopher Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes while performing time itself seems to stop when you hit your notes just right. The music glides between the pores of… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
COIL would very much like to see the creation of a newsgroup for minimal musics. We enjoy a wide spectrum of such… — John Balance Copy Share Image
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager… — Junior Brown Copy Share Image
Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“They include conceptual artist and “environmental music” composer Annea Lockwood, who created a work entitled Piano Burning. Debuted in London in 1968,… — Stuart Isacoff Copy Share Image
“When I really like something, I tend to never listen to it again. I want to remember the feeling even more than… — Questlove Copy Share Image
“In music, musicians must be able to read musical notes and have developed the skill to follow the music from their studies.… — Inna K. Shingareva Copy Share Image
I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“From nowhere, a choir raised its voice to the heavens, as angelic as Alex had ever heard. The music lifted from within… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“The title of this work in Hebrew begins with “The Song of Songs,” which means “the best song” or “the sublime song.” … — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be… — David Lang Copy Share Image
All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out and they would… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
It's my sixth year in the game so I've been here for a while now. You can expect the best me you've… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
“You heard and felt the harmonies of light, at least the surface of them, but you didn’t notice, did you, that the… — William P Young Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Music's totally eclectic now. I saw a DJ the other day, he was on Virgin radio over here, and he said he… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I should’ve probably warned you: once you end a relationship with an artist, you are perpetually reminded of them. They have now… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
“We play a show, and there's a hundred people, and people will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But… — Ian Mackaye Copy Share Image
Blasting the music,Sit in the corner with thoughts,Close my eyes, cover my ears,and realizing everything I've done, over thinking and opened my… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of… — Ari Hest Copy Share Image