For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across. — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the… — El-P Copy Share Image
Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be,… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is… — Pierre Boulez Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that… — David First Copy Share Image
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or… — John Cage Copy Share Image
On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and… — Plato Copy Share Image
A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety -… — Arca Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Our music is always a reflection of where we are in a society. That's what enables so many people to do what… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image