With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
All the stuff we have to edit out of our music, we put in our kids book. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization. — K. Flay Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood. — Jasmine V Copy Share Image
American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand,… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
“I think about how lonely I am without you. How boring my day is without you. How much I miss hearing your… — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
My windows down, my seats back, My music up, and we ride. Her legs up on my dashboard, And it's just the… — Brian Wright Copy Share Image
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean,… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“I want to reconcile the violence in your heart. I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask. I want to… — Matthew Bellamy Copy Share Image
Call it whatever you want, whether it's hip-hop or cult music or pop music, but to me, it's all pretty disposable. I… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.'… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true. — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Pop just means popular - it can be any genre, and if it becomes popular, then it's pop music. — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
