I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school. — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of… — Sting Copy Share Image
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Country songs for the most part have… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
“I should like to write four lines at a time, describing the same feeling, as a musician does; because it always seems… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We enjoy lovely music, beautiful paintings, a thousand intellectual delicacies, but we have no idea of their cost, to those who invented… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn't care. That's why I didn't tell her about my job at the studio.… — Brandy Colbert Copy Share Image
I think that's the place ideally we'd like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the… — King Princess Copy Share Image
“Her playing was slow, almost stately. Too many people think speed is the hallmark of a good musician. It’s understandable. What Marie… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and… — Beck Copy Share Image
As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don't get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the… — Katie Finneran Copy Share Image
1000 miles seems pretty far but they've got plains and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way. — Plain White T's Copy Share Image
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship. — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the… — Jeff Healey Copy Share Image
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized,… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ... Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and… — Carolina Kostner Copy Share Image
I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I… — TyDi Copy Share Image
My music's doing things, out there in the world, and that's a very positive feeling, you know? I haven't had a job… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep… — Lady G Copy Share Image
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world. — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Rhythm was a very strong element in KVM's music. He used to be called Udukkadi Mannan, because of his wide use of… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform… — Estelle Copy Share Image
To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music. — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
