My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I liked what any other kid did back in the day. You know, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and everything else that was… — John 5 Copy Share Image
I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
There has to be some mystery in life, because the joy of being a writer and the joy of being a musician… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those… — No I.D Copy Share Image
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
Worship is more than singing beautiful songs in church on a Sunday. It is more than instruments and music. As a true… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget… — Seldon Edwards Copy Share Image
I may catch some flack for this, but the Jersey style I feel is just very different from New York. When I… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Since my father's death, a lot of people have made it clear that they're not ready to give up the music. For… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
I just don't really listen to music. I'm probably missing out, but I don't want to know what everybody else is doing.… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Like the ability of all the musicians to end the song at the right time. Or when it's time for a chord… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Disco music has had its opportunity earlier and now the young people have taken it to another level. DJs are using our… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been… — Zedd Copy Share Image
Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The biggest problem that I have, careerwise, is finding time to play music and write music when I'm not onstage. Because I'm… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to me at all to give away music for free. The very fact that we have to do… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
“People who don’t appreciate art aren’t living a full life. Art, whether it’s music, paint, words, whatever the medium, busts veins of… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms… — Joe Lovano Copy Share Image
Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
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