Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the… — Ronny Cox Copy Share Image
Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I'd like to think the manner in which I do my job, whether it's positive or negative, has very little to do… — Mike Tomlin Copy Share Image
While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to… — Peabo Bryson Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a… — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
“At the ukulele workshop that summer. He lectured on the four-note chord in the context of timelessness, and described himself then as… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Fate had somehow conspired against me, giving me a life of its choosing rather than my own. No one would really miss… — Bobby Underwood Copy Share Image
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I think that anyone really can write songs, it just takes having an idea and a feeling and chasing it, and you… — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
“Mori made an unwilling sound. 'I don't like Western art.' 'No look at this.' He lifted it from its package. It wasn't… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you happen to run across a brilliant run of radio songs, where each tie one station goes to commercial, you scan… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very… — Vienna Teng Copy Share Image
“Monroe started to play again. The piano was warming up, the keys firm beneath his fingertips, the pedals amplifying or dampening, the… — Beatrice Colin Copy Share Image
“What we find as we listen to the songs of our rage or fear, loneliness or longing, is that they do not… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
Without sounding like I'm crying about it, I would like to eliminate the Internet from the music industry... just to see what… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
I think the thing about music is, it's about communication. If you communicate to anyone, whether someone unknown who's a fan or… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I think that this music could liquefy my internal organs, make my ears bleed (this has actually occurred), send me into seizures.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a… — John Carney Copy Share Image
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
O' exquisite aspiration, How I covet thee, Hear your glorious song. Yet see, know, truly understand, Without your beautiful lover, Application, You… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
“If you really want to know something about me, you should know this: I like my music loud. I mean loud. I'm… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
