My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy. — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized… — Coco Lee Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear,… — Mendelssohn Felix Copy Share Image
I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule.… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think the thing about music is, it's about communication. If you communicate to anyone, whether someone unknown who's a fan or… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I hear something I like, and sometimes, I think it's gonna work, and I will cut it up, try it out, try… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music… — Dave Rowntree Copy Share Image
Doors music is not a simple kind of music. It's like the Bauhaus. It's clean and pure. Morrison's lyrics are psychologically deep.… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Because for me, '60s pop music is amongst the most complicated or complex music because it has so many resonances which strike… — Tim Gane Copy Share Image
I'm a folk preacher. A folk therapist. A folk musician. I come from authentically that which is of my experience. Therefore, the… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally… — John Spiers Copy Share Image
