I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
~ Jay Griffiths
I'm always pursuing knowledge I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
~ Steve Vai
It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.
~ Neil Peart
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.
~ George Harrison
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
~ Talib Kweli
I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.
~ Sabrina Carpenter
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
~ Charlie Trotter
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
~ Jane Campion
I'm very into Taylor Swift. From her music to her wardrobe, she is absolutely killing it. Also, she has adorable cats that I would love to pet.
~ Connor Franta
I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.
~ Katherine Jenkins
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
~ Tom Delonge
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
~ Esperanza Spalding
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
~ Alan Lightman
I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
~ Sia
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
~ Drake
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
~ Warren Bennis
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
~ Young Jeezy
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
~ Ben Harper
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
~ Jason Moran
I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
~ Kygo
I'm sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don't even exist. And even though I'm pierced myself, I'm sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.
~ Jeff Buckley
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.
~ Michael Hutchence
Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.
~ Patty Loveless
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
~ M. Ward
I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
~ Art Malik
I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
~ Chris Stapleton
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
~ George A. Romero
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
~ Carine Roitfeld
The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
~ Jason Mraz
Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.
~ Mohit Chauhan
When I travel too much, it affects the music, and that is the most important thing. As long as I make good music, I can play shows, but if the music starts getting bad, the show offers won't come.
I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
~ Jen Lancaster
I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.
~ Bill Engvall
I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
~ Buzz Osborne
When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.
~ Samantha Morton
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
~ Alan Hovhaness
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
~ Brie Larson
