Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats. — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Follow through. Make your dreams come true. Don't give up the fight. You will be alright. Cause there's no one like you… — Muse Copy Share Image
My mother's sobriety - that's when I found the theater, that's when I moved from being a basketball player to being a… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs.… — Craig David Copy Share Image
It was just the next logical step from making succinct pop songs. What do you do after that? You make pop songs… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to… — James Iha Copy Share Image
From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
“She was the kind To tell it like it is To kiss and tell To kiss and kill To kill with kindness… — Heid E. Erdrich Copy Share Image
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It… — Anne Dudley Copy Share Image
Music as a whole industry is growing exponentially, but in terms of the actual music file, when you look at the actual… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society. — Tom Harrell Copy Share Image
I think that, in my research anyway, country music seems to be grounded in people staying true to their roots, being homegrown… — Alex Roe Copy Share Image
I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
Jazz is a sideways glance at music. It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the facade… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from… — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing… — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since… — Cheryl Lynn Copy Share Image
It's a cycle, 20 years down the line, they will remix today's songs for the youth to listen to at that time. — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter;… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image
It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love… — Anita Pallenberg Copy Share Image
I've never commercialized my music. I've seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
