Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?” -“If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective. — No I.D Copy Share Image
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence. — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical… — Laufey Copy Share Image
“All night i have been making songs for you in my head. A lay for your eyes, a ballad for your lips,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Being in worship and declaring you know, the truth of scripture through song and, you know, because music gathers all of who… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I… — Mick Fleetwood Copy Share Image
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship. — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
1000 miles seems pretty far but they've got plains and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way. — Plain White T's Copy Share Image
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the… — Katie Finneran Copy Share Image
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of… — Sting Copy Share Image
I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school. — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into… — Craig David Copy Share Image
I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better. — Future Copy Share Image
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
Most singers begin with a band and then go solo. I started making music on my own and subsequently chose to carry… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
Non-film music is a different world together, and unlike films, usually there are no actors, actresses or other superstars to help you… — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
For more than 300 years Qawwali music and Sufism have been deeply anchored in my family's roots and we spread it around… — Rahat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
He aint right but you dont trip you stand by while he lies then turn right round and forgive I cant take… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next… — Valee Copy Share Image
I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
![“Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go…” quote by Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/henry-rollins-170_arena_punk-rock-gave-music-back-to-people-for_1340442.png)
