As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents were listening to,… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. — George Szell Copy Share Image
I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who we were. — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
I've never been one to learn scales and do exercises. Maybe I'm lazy, but I just don't take to that kind of… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I became this dorky 15-year-old, in my bedroom all the time with crossed eyes, staring at my computer. It was all drum… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe… — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I'm not, and never have been, a man to carry a flag and lead great masses of people on to great music.… — Arthur Fiedler Copy Share Image
In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I believe that intermittent live performance has cut short the writing lives of touring musicians. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering. — Laura Smith Copy Share Image
My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I think it's really important to show new styles of song and music. I think that's what people want to see and… — BoA Copy Share Image
People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Most of my songs are emotional romantic numbers, so they are likely to suit a few situations in films. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
I always compare our music to a race car team. I told the band, 'You build the right car and I'll drive… — Steve Harwell Copy Share Image
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go. — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to… — Justin Rutledge Copy Share Image
A.R. Rahman is not a musician, he is a musical scientist, and when he gives advice, you need to take it seriously. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds.… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The music world is a big world, and chances that you're going to happen to know somebody are slim. Pomplamoose really just… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I'm a marketing guy at my core. If I wasn't doing music, I would still be introducing ideas on how I like… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“but music only exists because the pauses exist, and sentences only exist because the blank spaces exist.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
