Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that… — Barry Harris Copy Share Image
When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or… — Moby Copy Share Image
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love… — Quinn Shephard Copy Share Image
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became… — Lulu Copy Share Image
I really want to try to protect as much as I can, to safeguard peoples' first experience with a record. Because I… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical… — Kurt Weill Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
If I'm reading about a river or the trees or the wind blowing or the stars at night, if you can hear… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven 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
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
With music, one's whole future life is brightened. This is such a treasure in life that it helps us over many troubles… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
Music is an art and art has its own rules. And one of them is that you must pay more attention to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in… — Ramsey Lewis Copy Share Image
After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
Eric Peters' music is at the top of what gets played around my house, in my car and while I am running.… — Jill Phillips 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
I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well,… — Adam Ant 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
![“The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.” quote by Gloria Estefan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/564/gloria-estefan-2160_audience_the-music-is-one-of-the-beautiful-things_802296.jpg)
![“It's nice to hear when someone gets something and the sincerity is enough to tickle you. They can have the wrong notes but the essence of it is there, so it makes you laugh, because even when Frank [Zappa]'s music is sad, it makes me laugh.” quote by Gail Zappa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/470/gail-zappa-26739_enough_it-s-nice-to-hear-when-someone-gets-some_999286.jpg)
