As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. – Simon Beaufoy
Drummers are conductors – we set the pace for the music – so if you’re not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window. – Steven Adler
I’ve always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don’t really know what to do with yourself – in the vocals, in the production. Everything. – Tove Lo
While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. – Shawn Amos
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles. – Sara Gilbert
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock’n’roll, it’s just the way it was. – Slash
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. – Stephan Jenkins
That’s what it is that you rehearse – the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. – Sarah Caldwell
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what. – Sam Hunt
Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae’s consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music. – Stephen Marley
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. – Thomas Carlyle
Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. – Walter Savage Landor
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him. – Vladimir Horowitz
Music is what I always dreamed of doing. But at a certain point in my career, they convinced me to act, and that started me acting. – Sandra Echeverria
I wanted to make an album that takes a journey through all my favorite periods in music and then culminates in something that will most likely end my career. – Sturgill Simpson
Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place – folk music, rock n’ roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play. – Sam Barry
Music enriches people’s lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. – Victoria Wood
When you’re artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. – Stanley Crouch
I’ve grown up with my parents’ music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones. – Saoirse Ronan
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. – Tom Stoppard
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music. – Sturgill Simpson
It’s always easy, I think, to raise the importance of a scene through the addition of music. But it’s very awkward to end it unless there’s a door slam or a gunshot or something that just takes you right out of it. – Thomas Newman
I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano. – Teena Marie