In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for… — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“I will protect you," she promised the Bosendorfer inside. "I won't let you down." Sophie gave her a quizzical look. "Bastards better… — Dianne Sylvan Copy Share Image
The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all.… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place,… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Jennifer Lopez has been very much in the news because of her divorce from Marc Anthony, also a top singer, a top… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that… — Michael Cerveris Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music. What if necessary evil had an… — Tricia Springstubb Copy Share Image
“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time.… — George Lipsitz Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“Places I love come back to me like music, Hush me and heal me when I am very tired; I see the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
My parents gave me guitar lessons aged five in the hopes I'd go into classical music and do grades, but as soon… — Griff Copy Share Image
My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud;… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It's the hardest thing for a young player to develop. At the same time a young player also has to deliver their… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I really enjoy DJing but I couldn't DJ exclusively. I couldn't produce exclusively either, that would involve spending a lot of time… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
“The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and music… — Phillip Done Copy Share Image
“Does anybody know how I feel? Sometimes I'm numb... Sometimes I'm overcome... Does anybody care what's going on? Do I have to… — Zoegirl Copy Share Image
“I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
Usually I will hear a sample, think of a theme and then it will take me a couple of days to write… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
Your lover is like a favourite song,he makes you come alive,his words are soothing and his reasoning to you is poetry,his moves… — Ganda Wickliffe Copy Share Image
Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Music is heard in the background. As the movemnt becomes sharper; the many dancers acting but as one. She is one with… — Lisa C. Miller Copy Share Image
Music is the great motivator, stimulator and resuscitator. It heals, unites and ignites. It gets into my soul and affects me whole.… — Nicole Bonomi Copy Share Image
Throughout my 20s it was all about achieving and working as hard as possible. To the point that you don't think twice… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image