For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
“Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Bristol is known for having quite a good success rate of music - Massive Attack and Portishead, that drum and bass, dance… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“This girl wasn’t tapping her fingers restlessly, though. Her movements were methodical. Synchronized. Sitting far enough to the left of her to… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I've always gotten a natural high from performing. I suddenly feel invincible when I step onto the stage. Honestly, I get most… — Alexis Krauss Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Faith is a huge part of my life and I think my first experience with music wasn't that it's something you hear… — Griff Copy Share Image
When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good… — Kygo Copy Share Image
“The people that loves God, do they also have troubles? Yes but the troubles never have them. They can have pain but… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that our work and our music stands on its own without this knowledge about our identity around it. But I… — Ben Hopkins Copy Share Image
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,"… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
“The trouble with modern music is that it's somewhat too intellectual...the brain has been working a little more than the bigger muscle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a… — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West.… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
“Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
“You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The next morning I awoke and saw the morning sun peeking through my open window. The sound of wind chimes murmured their… — Gary D. Conrad Copy Share Image
When writing music for the 'Kaddish,' I evoked the prayers that were sung in Eastern Galicia, Ukraine and Romania. I was advised… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
