Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you'd go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk. — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it’s amazing ! — Mutya Buena Copy Share Image
Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired. — Orianthi Copy Share Image
My influences have been mainly Californian and Mediterranean music, so I guess you could call it spaghetti western. — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.” — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I think if you enjoy writing lyrics, sometimes melody is something that kind of hinders your flow, so sometimes writing without melody… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
It's crazy and so surreal. I feel like such a normal person, yet everybody around the world knows my music, my movie,… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I think one of the coolest things that you can do with music is when it sounds a certain way and can… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of… — Stanley Donen Copy Share Image
Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
I want to set up a music school for the needy who cannot afford musical education so that they can realize their… — Jamie Park Copy Share Image
“We throw stones though we live in glass houses, We talk shit like its a cross to bare. You're only relevant 'til… — Alex Gaskarth Copy Share Image
The first music I was interested in was Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, and I listened to bluegrass religiously on the… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I… — Allu Arjun Copy Share Image
I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to… — Montserrat Caballe Copy Share Image
For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student… — MNEK Copy Share Image
Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul. — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
I wanted to have a band that could rock as hard as the Who and sing like the Beatles and the Beach… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
I laid my country music aside for quite a while... because bluegrass audiences didn't care to hear it. But it just kept… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure. — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image