I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I can't write or read music. I am self-taught and never learned formally. It can be a curse sometimes but I think… — Einar Selvik Copy Share Image
This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want… — Maggie Rogers Copy Share Image
Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
It's great to compose music just for my own enjoyment, but that I have been able to make a lot of new… — Natalia Lafourcade Copy Share Image
Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique… — Tony MacAlpine Copy Share Image
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I loved my time at MTV because the music was critical; the music was our thrust. That's what the channel was all… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs.… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
I used to be the guy who wanted to do everything myself, wanted to write and play everything myself, but the older… — Piggy D Copy Share Image
I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like… — Louis Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“A producer is a man with a dream. I say, ‘I don’t write, I don’t direct, I don’t act, I don’t compose… — Larry Truman Copy Share Image
Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who… — Boudleaux Bryant Copy Share Image
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I love my family's music because I love it. It's good. I listen to the Winans all the time. I listen to… — Deborah Joy Winans Copy Share Image
Besides my son, music is the most important thing to me. I always have music on in my car and playing at… — French Montana Copy Share Image
The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
The Ramones couldn't play in my key. They couldn't switch keys, so Ed Stasium literally had to play all the instruments for… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
“These pleasures last but until tomorrow, And they wear out the vital powers of life. How fleeting is all life on earth!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out and they would… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public… — Moby Copy Share Image
I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an… — A Boogie wit da Hoodie Copy Share Image
“Don’t U want someone to complete you the way Mini-Me completed Dr. Evil? Someone who shares the same tastes in music food… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“They ain’t stealing nothing, baby,” she had said, winking at May. “They just trying to imagine what it’s like to be one… — J.D. Horn Copy Share Image
Music is all about seduction, so it's an ongoing flirtation, but watching anyone do what they are talented at is totally intoxicating.… — Ophira Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid… — John Ringo Copy Share Image
I secretly hate worship music, as it's it weak and predictable, with lyrics designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator -… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
“Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
To me, the songs that I'm most thankful to have been a part of creating are the songs that are able to… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting… — David Sylvian Copy Share Image
Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
