I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to… — Ted Poe Copy Share Image
“Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it.” — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. — Austin Carlile Copy Share Image
There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a… — Sarah Harmer Copy Share Image
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality.… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
Little by little, I get to see my music reach people's hearts. There was a time when it was all part of… — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time:… — Flume Copy Share Image
I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know?… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house.… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry… — Brynn Cartelli Copy Share Image
I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I… — Joe Trohman Copy Share Image
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations… — Marco Mendoza Copy Share Image
I've always played all the old songs. I'd go and see Peter Gabriel or Madonna and be surprised if they didn't play… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the… — Doseone Copy Share Image
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. — Eddi Reader Copy Share Image
You know what's a great song that will be stuck in your head if I say it? 'Single Ladies,' by Beyonce. Killer… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
“The theory of 1,000 true fans states that an artist (not just writers, but musicians, filmmakers, carpenters, whatever) need only acquire 1,000… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
“I’ve been writing more songs in my head,” he said, “about being a ghost and a shade.” His face turned smooth and… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not. — Luther Allison Copy Share Image
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to make music. But why not use something more humane, like your armpit. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that. — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
I think people who just know me from my band think I don't like pop music. The truth is I love pop… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it.… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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