Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Music never goes away. It is always available, but we are not always available to music.” — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't… — Jack White Copy Share Image
If you don't like my songs, don't hear it. If you don't like my music videos, don't watch it. If you hate… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
After my grunge phase, I started opening my horizons and listening to more electronic stuff. I got into Radiohead, specifically 'Amnesiac' -… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship.… — Bryan-Michael Cox Copy Share Image
“Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I'm sittin here writin a song about the baby'z mothers who try to sue the daddies for child support. Even though daddy… — Eazy-E Copy Share Image
“Belief in love can be hard, but faith in the romantic strings played by fate is faith in the symmetrical symphony sweetly… — Gaiven Clairmont Copy Share Image
It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with:… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I started learning how to belt when I was about 10, and I had a great aunt who was an opera singer… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
'Kolamey' is very special to me as it was created in total isolation and I could reinvent myself and travel back to… — Santhosh Narayanan Copy Share Image
There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. — Bono Copy Share Image
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world... — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace. — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Me and my two best friends went to see the Ramones in 1979, and two weeks later, I was like, 'We're starting… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane.” — Kirsty Moseley Copy Share Image
I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that. — Debra Stephenson Copy Share Image
My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art. — Manuel de Falla Copy Share Image
The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play. — Herbert von Karajan Copy Share Image
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used… — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel… — John Grant Copy Share Image
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
