Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. — Joey Ramone Copy Share Image
Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music. — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“In time of rain I come: I can sing among the flowers: I utter my song: my heart is glad. Water of… — Jane Bierhorst Copy Share Image
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
Being a musician - it's easier for me to date an athlete. There's too much competition [with a musician]. There's too much… — Jessica Simpson Copy Share Image
I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
“Humans have created too many beautiful songs to settle on one particular genre. Whether techno or opera, it doesn’t matter, as long… — Natalie Herzer Copy Share Image
When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
“Oh, you are indeed there, my skylark! Come to me. You are not gone: not vanished? I heard one of your kind… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“My father wants to take your favorite song and play it better than you've ever heard. I want to take your least… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
I think the crowds in the U.K. are actually the most knowledgeable about music, you have to pick up your game. You… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not,… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through… — Lee DeWyze Copy Share Image
I come from a very musical family, and a songwriter, a musician, is a byproduct of the influences of his life, whether… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
I was only listening to rock music, burning joss sticks in my bedroom, wanting only to be a disc jockey, and watching… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
“And the girl? I’m pretty sure he got her from a movie set where the music sounds like bow chicka bow wow.… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
'I Want It That Way' is a feelgood song. It's happy, easy to sing along with, and everybody knows it. — Brian Littrell Copy Share Image
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I'm in the lane where I can make music but also have it be funny and still good at the same time. — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos... what the colours will look like, what the… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.' — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
Life is about unforgettable and transcendent moments, isn't it? The point of music is to get the moment. — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
“What if instead of reading, you wrote? Instead of watching TV, you made videos? Instead of listening to music, you learned how… — Paul Jarvis Copy Share Image
Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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