We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be… — John Musker Copy Share Image
I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
“My hands moved up and down the keyboard, summoning great waves of music, each one crested with sorrow, loneliness, and anger. Tides… — Sarah Beard Copy Share Image
First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music,… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing,… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them… — Jose James Copy Share Image
“I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I got a chance to work with Miles Davis, and that changed everything for me, 'cause Miles really encouraged all his musicians… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
I think as an over-protective parent of my songs: I always feel like none of them get enough attention. There are the… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
When a friend puts out a new album and it's really great, it makes you want to do something that great and… — Matt Wertz Copy Share Image
A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Peacock and DeJohnette have the same kind of integrity as Jarrett in their life and their work, the same values and commitment.… — Ian Carr Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
I think that was going on with bands like The Strokes was that the idea of the band, a real band, was… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Any young, aspiring musicians out there, if music is what you want to do, if music is what you love and your… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
“Automatic is what I can manage. Isn't there enough to pay attention to OUTSIDE the car? All I want inside a car… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“Sensuality is essentially the only instrument I know how to play (though yes, I do know how to play the keys), but… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a… — Grimes Copy Share Image
“Rachel thinks, What long fingers Mama has, like wands in fairy tales. All the better to conduct with my dear! Ekaterina Wolff… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“The music of your youth stays with you and winds itself around your heart. I hear one chord of "Strawberry Fields Forever"… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
