When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
I try to create a style that reflects my music. So I would say it's definitely got some '90s elements, some pop… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate that the pool of musicians that I know in L.A. are incredible musicians. After playing with cats for… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce cano” is inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I stopped reading music reviews because it's somebody having a knee-jerk reaction to a song. I realized that that's not the definitive… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like… — Joel Plaskett Copy Share Image
When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with… — Albert Lee Copy Share Image
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
“it’s not actually possible to do more than one thing at a time in general, not just on your phone. (With the… — Sarah Knight Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I have organized the inner crowd. For a brief, breathtaking moment, I feel completely whole. I understand that I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places,… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
Daniel Nahmod's music is addictive and contagious... and is equally comfortable addressing your spirituality, your co-dependence and anger, your hungry stomach or… — Mel White Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
“When he wasn't making quirky jokes about his mother like this—it happened more than once—he mainly spoke at me, about his job… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
“Some nights once we finished performing at Teatro Pereyra in Ibiza we would head to Itaka, a small music hangout, avoiding the… — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences.… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of… — Faris Badwan Copy Share Image
Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture,… — Laurel Halo Copy Share Image
My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“The music--the making of music and the performing of music--produced memories, many good, some bad, some difficult. But he knew for sure… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don’t… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image