Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead. — Tony Levin Copy Share Image
As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them… — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in… — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
They say don't forget the LITTLE people, Well If you wasn't part of my life until now, then yeah, I must have… — Yung Capo Copy Share Image
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
I really want to try to protect as much as I can, to safeguard peoples' first experience with a record. Because I… — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a… — Javed Ali Copy Share Image
When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band.… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Should she go on? Or drop it? Maybe this was one of those things that people should keep to themselves, like a… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
“Your darkness is a symphony Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in love with noise If they… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
I think New York needs to balance the fuckin music out, man. Thats part of the reason we lost the shit in… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid,… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there. I call it the only city in America… — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration… — Katy B Copy Share Image
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
“Music does not merely sound: It enchants. To listen to music is to give our souls to its power. We do not… — Peter Kalkavage Copy Share Image
I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation. — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
I've seen bands come out and begin their concerts with these long, slow, boring songs. Are they kidding, or what? — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that… — Cherrelle Copy Share Image
Don't listen to much country music, you know, but I know a little bit though. My sister listens to a little bit… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
