“We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
I'd love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don't want them to… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with… — Kyle Abraham Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I was born into the most amazing family an underdog could be born into, and I was born into the LGBTQ community.… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with… — Harry Nilsson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the line Coltrane's soprano sax runs out of steam. Now it's McCoy Tyner's piano solo I hear, the left hand… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I hear music I want to engage in it. Even if I engage in it very quickly and turn it off… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years of musical journey, what I realized is that one need to respect their teachers, elders and parents… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue. — Carlos Alomar Copy Share Image
I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
“For I hear music, they were saying. Music wakes us. Music makes us see the hidden, join the broken. Look and listen.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ...… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I rap, and I work with this dude named Chemist, who lives in Virginia. He's my go-to producer and does a lot… — Stephen Glover Copy Share Image
I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound,… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
I realize over the years my music has started becoming more like country and it's not necessarily something I'm trying to do. — Matt Wertz Copy Share Image
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' — Grace Helbig Copy Share Image
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
It's natural to me that someone who loved that type of music or that type of spectacle would copy it, to do… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
You can't get a better education in what it is to write songs until you listen to American soul music. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
When the lyrics to a song relate so much to you, you feel like that person wrote it for your soul. — Evangeline Willis Copy Share Image
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it. — Don Pullen Copy Share Image
I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and… — Randy Houser Copy Share Image
Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth! — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
As a musician, I realize I am not only responsible for the music that I put out, but also for my actions… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
