American Quote by Heather Mac Donald

I studied classical music for a long time, maybe 10 years, and I realized finally I was never going to have the hands to…

— Leon Russell

I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming from bluegrass,…

— Chris Thile

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very…

— Tod Machover

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical…

— Arto Lindsay

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

— Igor Stravinsky

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse…

— Herbie Hancock

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

— Henry Van Dyke

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing,…

— E. O. Wilson

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

— Albert Einstein

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits…

— Elvis Costello

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came…

— Evan Parker