The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
My windows down, my seats back, My music up, and we ride. Her legs up on my dashboard, And it's just the… — Brian Wright Copy Share Image
“I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask. I want to… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I didn't start off with the responsibility because I didn't think anybody would care. But as you do meet these people influenced… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in stirring anybody up through music. If you're going to stir people up, it has to be a thought… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
Being classy is a culmination of being yourself, being positive, and doing good in all the places you can by all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski Copy Share Image
“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the… — Victor L. Wooten Copy Share Image
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport… — Crosby Loggins Copy Share Image
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica, the studio doors are wide… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
“A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me… — Prince Copy Share Image
“Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
The fact is, you can't have Southern friends without eventually wanting to sing with them, and without eventually learning that the only… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
People on YouTube say they don't think people should mix genres. Those are the same people who don't think they should mix… — Tech N9ne Copy Share Image
Making music is an inward and outward gesture at once. I make it because I'm communing with a side of myself that… — Arca Copy Share Image
I was rejected by every agent in Australia when I was starting out. No one would represent me, because I didn't fit… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
That smile hides everything,Music she blasted saved her life at times,And that special person saved her life when music stopped because she… — Jasmine Laura Copy Share Image
You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
You go to a show and you know the crowd is there because they like the music, not because everybody else was… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk… — Randy Weston Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
![“At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound…” quote by Randy Weston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/251/randy-weston-65027_ancient_at-first-i-didn-t-understand-what-thelon_2078052.jpg)
