I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
As a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
The thing about Springsteen, his music, although he's writing about, you know, New Jersey and Asbury Park, all of them places, it's… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there.… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
I loved this idea of always being a foreigner. There's this thing where people bring cultures, bring the music together. I love… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This… — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
A special fuck to all you cunts in my childhood that said I'd never make anything of myself, to all the assholes… — Danny Worsnop Copy Share Image
Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that… — Stuart A. Staples Copy Share Image
Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About… — Beck Copy Share Image
Whenever I'd go anywhere with my dad - in his 1980 burgundy Dodge Ram - he'd always listen to mix tapes of… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a… — Barry Manilow Copy Share Image
Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
People don't play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or L.A. - to become stars or to… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
I was very depressed when I was 19. I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is something about musical narrative and Australians. If you want to do something, you kind of have to do it at… — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers,… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
“[92] Plato, in his fourth book of Laws, says that the præfectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but… — Phil Lesh Copy Share Image
Brooklyn has a strong, historic relationship with both music and basketball, and I look forward to working with BSE Global to find… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“You can have the perfect message, but it may fall on deaf ears when the listener is not prepared or open to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It's true that the Internet is an equalizer, and everybody can be a star now. Musicians are more touchable these days, and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music,… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
We were living together in the projects, with two other musicians in Munich. We had nothing to eat, and we were unhappy.… — Rob Pilatus Copy Share Image
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
“The multiple choices and possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. They are like strings on a guitar. Strum… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
![“[92] Plato, in his fourth book of Laws, says that the præfectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments in the city; and, in his Republic, iii, Damon will tell you, says he, what sounds are capable of corrupting the mind with base sentiments, or of inspiring the contrary…” quote by Montesquieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/montesquieu-19593_books_92-plato-in-his-fourth-book-of-laws-says_1724267.jpg)
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