I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know? — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music… — TobyMac Copy Share Image
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
Live your life. listen to your music way too loud, be as crazy and as diffrent as you want to be and… — Andy Sixx Copy Share Image
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both… — David Raiklen Copy Share Image
I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
My step dad's from Nigeria, so he listened to Highlife music from Africa. He was also into hip-hop and R&B, and from… — Jax Jones Copy Share Image
Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it!… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
“It’s not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we’ll need a way of defending it against… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people.… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves. — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“It’s amazing how inspirational posters and “soothing” music can make you want to punch yourself in the face.” — Tracey Ward Copy Share Image
I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I didn't feel particularly cool when I was 16 or 17 but I felt accepted in a community of alternative music and… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
Before I was born, my mom was rapping. My dad was into rapping too. By the time I was here, I was… — Lil Chuckee Copy Share Image
The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't… — Astrid S Copy Share Image
Letters start with A-B-C Numbers start with 1-2-3 Music starts with Do-Re-Me And love starts with You-And-Me — Ali Copy Share Image
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Music isn't from what is written on the paper, it is what we make the notes on the paper to be.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences. — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
