Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove.… — Tommy Shannon Copy Share Image
“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black,… — Amanda Petrusich Copy Share Image
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers. — Shakira Copy Share Image
Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality… — John Popper Copy Share Image
As long as you continue to have new songs, there's usually some new topic or something to present. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted places of my… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Our intent with Led Zeppelin was not to get caught up in the singles' market, but to make albums where you could… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be.… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass!… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself,… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
I think people are largely proud of being musically on the risk. Any time you talk to someone about music, I feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got… — John Otway Copy Share Image
Alan Menken took me to his studio and we went through his trunks of songs and put together an album of stuff… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Rise' gave me an idea for the rest of the music's concepts. I really thought of the sun when I listened it.… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and makeup. Maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
“When you play, Eva, I feel hopeful. They can take our homes, our possessions. Our families. Our lives. They can drive us… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But… — Birdy Copy Share Image
Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
“The struggle for a life extracts all our attention, and leaves us blind, deaf, dumb and senseless. The writer, the artist, the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think 90s music is brilliant. Personally I'm more about the 60s and 70s, I love the classic rock, Jimi Hendrix, The… — Dylan Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own… — Ronnie James Dio Copy Share Image
“Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
