I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be… — David Lang Copy Share Image
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me.… — Yuna Copy Share Image
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to a lot of hiphop music and R'n'B. Bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Big… — Taboo Copy Share Image
What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only… — John Kao Copy Share Image
My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Not only my favorite producers, but those are actually brothers, they're part of our We The Best family. To me, they're the… — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
You know what I think you get scared of more - especially me, after touring for so long and being in bands… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as… — Vera Stanley Alder Copy Share Image
People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If she could see the beauty of this underground world, and appreciate what it means: the music, the dancing, the feeling of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out… — John Congleton Copy Share Image
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my… — Bernie Marsden Copy Share Image
I feel like just from having both ends of the spectrum, I was so etched into music, from the time I was… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to… — Drew Seeley Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
You go through so much work, making the music, writing the lyrics, finishing it, mixing it, putting visuals together for it, putting… — Griff Copy Share Image
I felt like it was the space that I could be the most authentic of anywhere because of how I grew up.… — Bobby Bones Copy Share Image
“Your songs are still out there on the clifftop, hanging in the air for you when you want them. Wish to speak… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the flipside, as… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I am not an evangelist. I am not a preacher. I am a musician. That is what I know how to do.… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Some people like music to be far more immediate and make you dance straight away. But I like to engage with it… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
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