I need weird breakages to happen for music to feel true to life, and I think that also applies to good film… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Songs like 'Party Hard' were written to make people feel in touch with their greatest potential. — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs. — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
“The melody drifted into an aching silence. Austin lifted his head, and she saw his tears, trailing along his cheeks, glistening in… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny… — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
“They also keep a horned cow as proud as any queen; But music turns her head like ale, And makes her wave… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
Before the money or anything, number one, it was just to put out real music, real stuff with a passion, real art. — Lil B Copy Share Image
I wish you were here Yeah, I wish you were here Music is better And lights are brighter when you are near… — Treasure Copy Share Image
Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do. — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
My songs are my girlfriends. I have a secret romance with all of them. I romance with them year after year. — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
People haven't always been there for me but music always has.but now I have someone who is my everything,but I lost music… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two… — Mark Deklin Copy Share Image
“You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there. — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I had to agonize over my selection since our music is so rich and all the above plus many others have contributed. — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The… — Al Green Copy Share Image
My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don't sit well with others. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up. — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image