It's important for me to say something, and with wisdom if I can. I don't think there's anything wrong with just going… — Jeremy Enigk Copy Share Image
I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a… — Haley Bonar Copy Share Image
“But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“It was long past midnight. Laura's music played on. It was composed in the language of stars, tinkling in a crystal pool… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
“Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about –… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because… — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be… — Beck Copy Share Image
I was 21, and I was like, "Man, am I really gonna start over and try this whole thing over again? Do… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“You swear you’ll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I can definitely say that music is taking a turn [toward] the electro, somewhat 80s-inspired music. I feel like its kind of… — Ciara Copy Share Image
I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame,… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs… — Ed MacFarlane Copy Share Image
“On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Music, in fact, plays a central role in the creation of identity and the formation of real communities. Musical memories are some… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though I remember, sharply, last things. The last book she read. The last play (and film, and concert, and opera, and art… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The old music industry is dead. We’re standing in the ruins of a business built on private jets, Cristal, $18 CDs and… — Larry Wacholtz Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“People keep telling me that my music has helped them through periods of their life, and I've never understood how that happens,… — Jimmy McDonough Copy Share Image
“Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with music, she’s borderline tone deaf. But trying to describe how I felt watching her… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks"… — Kurt Ralske Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“A three-piece Mexican band was making the kind of music a Mexican band always makes. Whatever they play, it all sounds the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't take myself that seriously when it comes down to that stuff. My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it… — Shane Meadows Copy Share Image
![“I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in the music industry. It's really tough to get a leg up and navigate around your gender and stereotypes. You feel hopeless, [but] all of that disappears…” quote by Haley Bonar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45f/haley-bonar-83184_bullshit_i-think-my-philosophy-on-music-is-sort-o_1365526.jpg)
![“I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we…” quote by Theresa Wayman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/945/theresa-wayman-30913_all-kinds_i-think-the-best-thing-about-music-is-th_405394.jpg)
![“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced?…” quote by Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ff/wynton-marsalis-1721_art_he-benny-carter-is-all-that-every-jazz-m_2002120.jpg)
![“I can definitely say that music is taking a turn [toward] the electro, somewhat 80s-inspired music. I feel like its kind of evolving back to that, and music kind of repeats itselflike, at one point in time hip-hop was dominating, and we had that moment, at one point in time R&B songs that were…” quote by Ciara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcd/ciara-10428_music_i-can-definitely-say-that-music-is-takin_1726110.jpg)
![“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm…” quote by Susanne K. Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1cf/susanne-k-langer-83242_aesthetics_the-assignment-of-meanings-in-music-is-a_3110845.jpg)
