When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a… — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“That's three times you've hurt my feelings in one conversation," he said a bit gruffly. "Three times?" I really hadn't mean to… — April Lindner Copy Share Image
You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as… — RZA Copy Share Image
Yes, I started piano and classical singing, I wanted to study jazz, but I tried to go to the Polish University of… — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people, when they write a song, they put it on a pedestal - and it shouldn't be.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power,… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
During college, I didn't really have an interest in what I was studying. It was during college that I first stumbled into… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Live music is proof that there's some things the Internet can't kill. In our lifetime, we're going to see more and more… — Jim James Copy Share Image
Sixteen finds me Blowing out candles and making wishes And all around me Is everyone but the one I'm wishing for And… — NIKLOVESMEEKA Copy Share Image
What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk… — Hopsin Copy Share Image
My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing.… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
“I don’t have any drug stories to tell about myself. Once somebody met me on the street when my quartet was going… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
Maybe the level of people you attract is what you supposed to attract. Maybe the few people I attract are the ones… — Redman Copy Share Image
A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love… — Donovan Copy Share Image
When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock… — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge… — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
I always say that MTV cribs is what brought straight men into the fashion world. Once they sort of saw sports guys… — Nick Wooster Copy Share Image
Everyone loves the Beatles, but if you really dig into their music, they were actually speaking on things. When you have such… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film.… — Sabrina Lloyd Copy Share Image
I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far… — Jack White Copy Share Image
They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
Technology is improving to prevent musicians from losing their hearing while performing on stage... audience members losing their hearing from listening to… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
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