Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced… — Ice T Copy Share Image
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.'… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
“Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
Being classy is a culmination of being yourself, being positive, and doing good in all the places you can by all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
I'd like to think the manner in which I do my job, whether it's positive or negative, has very little to do… — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to… — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“We play a show, and there's a hundred people, and people will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But… — Ian Mackaye Copy Share Image
Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our… — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
