I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
“Lack of Faith" Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild… — Anna Kamieńska Copy Share Image
It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to… — Juice Newton Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
My songwriting and overall approach to music go beyond just good singing and strong musicality - I want people, now more so… — Rayvon Owen Copy Share Image
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young'… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
It's important for me to be respected and to be thought of as authentic and true to myself. So even if country… — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
We aren't hiding behind these masks, we're actually revealing more to you than you might think. The mask I wear brings out… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
It wasn't just music in The Ramones: it was an idea. It was bringing back a whole feel that was missing in… — Tommy Ramone Copy Share Image
I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
My decision to open my first restaurant in Nashville was born from my heart. From the moment I stepped foot in Music… — Maneet Chauhan Copy Share Image
A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
I do want for people instead of downloading music for free, to start purchasing, that's how everyone makes their living, that's how… — Shanice Copy Share Image
“Music can make you feel things that aren’t yours—sadness, or love, or joy. A good song has a magic to it. It… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would… — Sonita Alizadeh Copy Share Image
It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know… — Hillary Scott Copy Share Image
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical ideas and first said,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
“It’s the spotlight that bothers him. Isaac left the concrete for the darkness. Where he could look into his life and learn.… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I often find there's an equal benefit to being in a comfortable, well rested studio session, but also the more pressured headspace… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Im from the Calliope so Master P, C-Murder and No Limit. On the local side, I was a fan of PNC and… — Lil Chuckee Copy Share Image
I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up… — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just a humanising thing to realise that a ton of people in bands that make really exciting music, are just… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image