Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair. — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I listen to a pretty wide variety of albums so as to get influenced by nothing particular. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase. — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
I get my inspiration from a lot of bands actually. I really like AC/DC, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and new bands. I like… — Bea Miller Copy Share Image
“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing… — Noel Redding Copy Share Image
You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
Without sounding like I'm crying about it, I would like to eliminate the Internet from the music industry... just to see what… — Uncle Kracker Copy Share Image
As human beings we're visual creatures, and it's so easy to play the guitar by looking at it. It's a real challenge… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren't going to release my fourth record… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there - 'Other People's Lives,' as we wrote about on the last… — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work. — Xzibit Copy Share Image
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't. — Dan Reynolds Copy Share Image
At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
“Someday, you will take the notebook that has awaited you forever and begin to construct your walls of song and then, leap… — María Negroni Copy Share Image
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It is true I've written songs for other performers; I've worked with Tricky, Tears for Fears, A1, HearSay among others. — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves -… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song.… — Buck Owens Copy Share Image
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one. — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a song without music. A song without music is like a body without a soul.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song. — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
There have been highs and lows in my career. But everything to do with 'Raindrops' has virtually been perfect... I feel lucky… — B. J. Thomas Copy Share Image
But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness.… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
“The mind has an ear of its own and sometimes memory is the fiercest fucking DJ alive.” — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Because in classical music cello is not regarded as a popular choice, it's always playing the long, boring notes. — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. — Leila Josefowicz Copy Share Image
