The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
'Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are based off poetry, but I mainly write to write. I never know which form the words are… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,… — Cyrus Chestnut Copy Share Image
There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
It was a free-for-all; the BBC wouldn't play anything so we had pirate radio playing the African-American music and the Beatles and… — John Waite Copy Share Image
Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music. — Bappi Lahiri Copy Share Image
My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three. — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new,… — Swizz Beatz Copy Share Image
I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience. — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am in that unique little club where I went into music because I love music, not because I wanted to be… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I used to like MC Breed, the old Tupac. All of that music. I was hungry. I was like a sponge. I… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
A person can learn technically to orchestrate. But the stuff it takes to make a really terrific arrangement, that can't be taught,… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
We need music the most when were feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with - the people who don't care about my music career at… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” — Jane Swan Copy Share Image
G.O.O.D music is the consequnce, we legends really Tho. Minus Kanye, buh we got this money in common. We get it day… — Killa Kyleon Copy Share Image
It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want… — Jackson Harris Copy Share Image
