When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but… — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
Punk changed everything. It blew away all the dull, pompous stuff that happened before, like glam rock. Kids were getting involved in… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Ever since I've ever heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise - as clean as possible, anyway, and… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm not one for sitting around listening to my own music, because I tend to cringe and think that I could have… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and… — Alan Freed Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a teacher because that is all I knew. It was a great course on primary school education, in… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
“It was a woman's voice, high and sweet, with a strange music in it like none that he had ever heard and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
We didn't want it to be about Mickey and Minnie being married. It was about Wayne and Russi being married. We had… — Russi Taylor Copy Share Image
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people… — Dick York Copy Share Image
David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does,… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I would like to go back in time and remind myself that when you're working in music field, it's very easy to… — Jenn Wasner Copy Share Image
What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Rza just used the whole synopsis of the karate flick and capitalised offa that around this music. Some things you find out… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Well never ever be as good on record as we are live because were not a full band unless those kids are… — Chris Carrabba Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky to have found two other, now three other musicians, that I can absolutely communicate with musically and believe… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
“Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm… — Music Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages… — Jennifer Higdon Copy Share Image
And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I have a taste for a lot of different kinds of music... everything, from hip-hop to jazz to R&B to top 40… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
“They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful.… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are,… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you. You were learning to compose music like Mozart, and I was learning to listen like Beethoven.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I… — Pritam Chakraborty Copy Share Image
I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
There's a band in a garage right now writing songs for an album that will do the same thing 'Nevermind' did some… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image