We're not clever enough to picture something and say, "Our music is going to be Jackson Pollock meets Oprah Winfrey" and then… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of… — Art Alexakis Copy Share Image
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love -… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is… — Claude-Michel Schonberg Copy Share Image
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
I have the right to speak up. If you don't want to listen, just unfollow. If you're so upset about it you… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image