There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief… — Moby Copy Share Image
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out… — Graeme Souness Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of… — Charlie Heaton Copy Share Image
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
I'm just gonna be honest and if I feel something, I'm just gonna say it! Once I started doing that, my music… — SonReal Copy Share Image
You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on… — Evan Fallenberg Copy Share Image
“I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
There's just a completely different vibe at festivals. Everyone gets to hang out and enjoy their favorite music all day. I really… — Kygo Copy Share Image
If I'm on an away game or on my way to the stadium or on a bus ride, I listen to more… — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“Starting with a melody, she'll lead you far away down passages of poetry where dreamers often play.” — Susan Waterwyk Copy Share Image
I can't take a break from acting but I've learnt to work my way around films and devote time to my music… — Diljit Dosanjh Copy Share Image
I like to make music and anytime I come up with something good, I'll record it as a video on my phone. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.” — Karen Mueller Coombs Copy Share Image
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me. — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Then I met people at school who were into Erykah Badu and Snoop Dogg. I like heaps of different music, but that… — Alice Levine Copy Share Image
When I write songs, it happens very quickly, sometimes 10 to 15 minutes, and I draw inspiration from everything. — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create… — Ray J Copy Share Image
I'm really, really into the rave scene and just kind of how people come together and how it's just music and just… — Kerli Copy Share Image
I've tried writing darker, more serious songs, but they don't go anywhere. Everything revolves around the chorus for me. — Shura Copy Share Image
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too. — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to… — Alan Vega Copy Share Image
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