Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I… — Banks Copy Share Image
“One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what’s there—the music, the words, the movement,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There [are] times when I put out an album, and I don't hear my songs really on the radio a lot, and… — Common Copy Share Image
I think my music is a reflection of what I think life is. Which is beautiful and sad, you know. I'm a… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if… — Art Pepper Copy Share Image
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but… — David Lovering Copy Share Image
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
In a soundtrack, you are in a way always relating with... a combination of different languages. It has to have the same… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
“one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a… — Jim Lewis Copy Share Image
“A BIRTHDAY Something continues and I don't know what to call it though the language is full of suggestions in the way… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing."… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
“You have to turn it up so that your chest shakes and the drums get in between your ribs like a heartbeat… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
It's natural for me to step into the studio and come out with a country, rock, or trap song. I'd feel pressured… — Bree Runway Copy Share Image
What an incredible honor for us to share the stage with real life rock n' roll icons, the Rolling Stones. There are… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music… — Ji-Hae Park Copy Share Image
“But most people don’t bother to engage in acts of creation, like drawing pictures, making music, or building model airplanes. There’s no… — Daniel Z. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Our vision is to allow users to search for content like movies, music, and songs with your voice or using gestures on… — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something… — Glenn Kotche Copy Share Image
I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Nothing's difficult. I'm having a good time. I look at this as a total blessing, you know, and as myself being fortunate… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it’s a conversation: asking,… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Most people grow up wanting to be a director or be an actor, or be a musician, and, you know, I want… — Ti West Copy Share Image
“which she played like the crazy prodigy she was, then she blanked out again. Her depression was ameliorated by music and brought… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
I'm a little jaded when it comes to certain kinds of music. I'm much more drawn to a vocalist than what's going… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
“We are duplicitous, we're blind- and it is hard to live, trusting only in life: earthly life is a murky translation from… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
How do I transform pain. I guess the number one way in which I do that is by working on music, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
“I would not want to live in a universe where good could not ultimately triumph over evil. Or where there was no… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love talking to other musicians on tour and finding out what we all have to do, not just as artists but… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
One of the first people that believed in me, the first person to invest in my talent, me and this guy used… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
In this music industry, you'll find the differences with artists. You get some people who really love music... and you get people… — Skepta Copy Share Image
I grew up on the lake and spent most of that time outdoors. As a musician, I travel widely around the country… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image