The text for me is the musical score. I'm the instrument. My voice is the instrument. My voice is articulating the sounds… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good… — Ed Thigpen Copy Share Image
The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness. She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role… — Joshua Henry Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Truth be told, of course, what I enjoy most is reinventing myself and doing new projects where I work in new genres,… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is… — Woody Shaw Copy Share Image
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Dont call me a rapper, I’m an artist. Update your minds. I ‘INCORPORATE’ hip hop elements because I am part MC, but… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic…The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age,… — Randal Kleiser Copy Share Image
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously,… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was… — Charlie Fink Copy Share Image
When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
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