I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. — Laurence Equilbey Copy Share Image
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I feel everything. I feel everything, so when you feel, you know you have emotions and everything. Music is a feeling. Music… — Lil B Copy Share Image
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I used to personally dread writing lyrics. Because I never really understood how to do it. And for some reason, in this… — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
“Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I've grown up on American songwriters my whole life - listening to Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and people like John Prine… — Passenger Copy Share Image
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty,… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Compared to other bands that have gone off the deep end with their sound, you know, I'm very confident. I did not… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
“A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
'Junglee' was a magical journey. When you see the visuals of the film or the song 'Fakeera,' it reminds you of Dehradun. — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about,… — Nas Copy Share Image
Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it. — MC Lars Copy Share Image
I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison. — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Whenever you find the key to happiness. Life has a piano waiting on you to play. — Clive Jaars Copy Share Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I used to have a Fender Hot Rod and I actually really like that, purely because I think the clean sound and… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to mix music and computers. Just like it’s not good to mix friends and work, and sex.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally. — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really… — Ray J Copy Share Image
I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
