And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French… — French Montana Copy Share Image
I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies Copy Share Image
I make all types of music. People wanna put me in a little box, and they get mad when I don't stay… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about… — Lee Brice Copy Share Image
I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when… — Stephin Merritt Copy Share Image
I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having… — Logic Copy Share Image
I started making hip-hop music when I was 11, and pretty much since then I've just been honing that craft, the craft… — Alexander Spit Copy Share Image
“She felt a little better about Leonard out here in the country. It was just being close to nature, she supposed. In… — Maud Hart Lovelace 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
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
“heaven is high and deep, and its lower air is music; in the upper regions the music may pass, who knows, merging… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Listening to Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven while I write. Its not fair to just call it music; its audible emotion. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate… — Katy B Copy Share Image
When I'm on the road I get to read, play golf and do what I love to do - play music. Not… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it… — Moby Copy Share Image
There's always a need for our kind of music. It's an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you… — Jeff Hanneman Copy Share Image
Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Luckily, I've the ability to express my music exactly the way I create it because I sing my own compositions. — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
When Sonic Youth writes music, we write everything in a very communal way. It doesn't matter who brought something in initially; it… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
A lot of people that I've met who don't like country music just haven't been introduced to the old country. — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
Thankfully, I have got the ear to select music, which I think I have inherited that from my father. That matters a… — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image