Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I always had a love for music, but I was watching 'Sister Act 2' with Lauryn Hill, and I heard her sing,… — August Alsina Copy Share Image
We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being… — Vanessa Lengies Copy Share Image
One of the most important things you need when you're doing big shows, like Rock in Rio, is consistency, and that starts… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house.… — Riley Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
New Orleans is of such key importance to American music because historical factors combined to make it the strongest center of African… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
What kind of music keeps its relevance? That's why I purposely try and avoid any particularly current trends in electronic music. I… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was… — Blair Underwood Copy Share Image
That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you… — Hollie Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Beale Street is a very famous street in the history of America. You know, American music in particular. From the blues to… — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
“Berlin. November 18, 1917. Sunday. I think Grosz has something demonic in him. This new Berlin art in general, Grosz, Becher, Benn,… — Harry Kessler Copy Share Image
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to… — Austin Mahone Copy Share Image
I've always been into music. I used to DJ. I used to mix reggae and that. I used to be into reggae… — Giggs Copy Share Image
When 'Raw Like Sushi' came out in the U.S., I wasn't considered to be black enough. They didn't really know where to… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. But it is also in terror, because… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I grew up with a sense of music being a very spiritual experience while playing in church and with parents who were… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
“The enemy, self-consciousness, is creeping up on them and Gibbsy or Biggsy is the first to crack, declaring that the music is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video,… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
