I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing… — Nicolas Jaar Copy Share Image
I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base. — Styles P Copy Share Image
Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling. — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up. — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while,… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves… — Geoff Downes Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak Copy Share Image
I'm a very optimistic person. I have the chance to listen to so much phenomenal music. Connecting with social networking to create… — Paul van Dyk Copy Share Image
I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion,"… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Being able to connect with people with similar taste and style also allows people to get to know us better. Although we… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music.… — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. — Cornel West Copy Share Image