I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I… — Avi Kaplan Copy Share Image
If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
I came upon Diana Krall's jazz arrangement of "A Case of You" several years back. I've always wanted to pay homage to… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak the language, you should… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
“The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids… — Stan Kenton Copy Share Image
An audience will let you know if a song communicates. If you see them kind of falling asleep during the song, or… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Mike Nicholls saw me in the musical of The Full Monty and brought me in to audition for Angels in America for… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I quit school. I don't do good in following police guidelines or restrictions. For someone to put rules on a genre of… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
“Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“Here are my politics: I love music and painting; a good book is an event for me; I’m going on forty-four. How… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
With music there's so many limbs and facets. Video and touring and merchandise and all those little things require attention. They're artist… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily… — Tamas Vasary Copy Share Image
I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and… — Emma Hewitt Copy Share Image
Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And… — Kenny Rogers Copy Share Image
I like Canada for a number of reasons, politics and people and all that stuff aside. I was raised there, and I… — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes and let the music take over, and when I opened them, Cole was watching me. As our eyes… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
![“When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.” quote by Christopher Meledandri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f79/christopher-meledandri-23909_despicable_when-you-listen-to-the-music-in-this-fil_2588398.jpg)
![“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.” quote by Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/jacques-louis-david-55514_art_the-artist-must-be-a-philosopher-socrate_583995.png)
