Big fan Quote by Steve Vai

With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a…

— Steven Price

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going…

— Stan Kenton

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

— Chuck Mangione

I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience…

— Duke Ellington

“Hearing tells you the music is playing. Listening tells you what the song is saying!”

— Rick Rigsby

No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.

— Julien Temple

I always love to use exciting colors from cultural music from around the world in my scores.

— Bear McCreary

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

— Coco Lee

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down…

— Robbie Robertson

I like ethnic, local cultural music. When we travel, we look at faces, we look at the things people make, and music is one…

— Richard Harris

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some…

— Damon Albarn

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community…

— Alex Ebert

I love listening to music and I can't walk without headphones in my ears. I listen to it while eating, walking, in the loo…

— Cherry Forever

“To attempt to describe how music pervades and flavors a life feels a little like an invasion of privacy, even if the privacy is…

— Geoffrey O'Brien

That weird moment when your listening to music and you hear a noise . You take out your earphones and find everybody starring at…

— Jarin