Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I feel everything. I feel everything, so when you feel, you know you have emotions and everything. Music is a feeling. Music… — Lil B Copy Share Image
I like music that is upbeat, such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. Or anything disco - I will listen to that,… — Jacques Torres Copy Share Image
Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back,… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
If you think about it, when you listen to music, music makes you cry. It makes you happy. It makes you dance.… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm a chancer and they think I'm lucky! They don't realise that I… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but… — Nas Copy Share Image
Whether I'm trying to or not, I have this inherent feeling that music is uplifting; it makes you feel victorious, and that… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if… — Alex Scally Copy Share Image
It is crazy how people can't understand the concept of comedy and music. It's like they have to be mutually exclusive. — Lil Dicky Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I've always loved rock music. I've always loved stuff like the Specials and the Breeders and things like that. But it was… — Tricky Copy Share Image
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about,… — Nas Copy Share Image
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
I sing for the joy of music... when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
Electronic music is the first genre to realize how to use the music for marketing something else, which is playing festivals and… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it. — MC Lars Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Karen and I are public figures. We got into this business because we loved making music. And if an act happens to… — Richard Carpenter Copy Share Image
Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
