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
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
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
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
“88% of what we call good songs aren’t really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else. — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how much more important watching 'Hellraiser' is to my music than listening to a Milton Babbitt piece or… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can… — Vieux Farka Toure Copy Share Image
Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes… — Arjun Janya Copy Share Image
I learnt music by listening to other singers like Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Billy Joel, Sting... I tried to emulate them. It… — KK Copy Share Image
Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours… — John Keats 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
“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 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Saying jumpoff dont sound right is blashphemous down right, I astound mic's, music is just what feelings sound like. — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
You don't work in a vacuum. If you're a visual artist you work in a visual culture. If you're a pop musician… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
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