Gotye quote: "A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?"

I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different ...
BABYFACE

I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want...
JENNY LEWIS

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you k...
CEELO GREEN

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make...
ZEDD

If you look at the history of music, you have classical composers, church music, pop music, etc. Mus...
MIKE LOVE

Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he wri...
COLBIE CAILLAT

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual ...
DAVID SANBORN

For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It...
IMELDA MAY

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is?...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have ...
PAOLO SORRENTINO

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got th...
JIMI HENDRIX

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, an...
AIMEE MANN

I still love it. I love lots of other music, too, and always have, but punk's the soundtrack of ...
ELIZABETH HAND

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
PRINCE

That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - t...
CAM

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a ...
ALEX EBERT

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho...
CLIVE DAVIS

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely tech...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music i...
B.O.B

The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'...
LIL UZI VERT

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The t...
JOEY SANTIAGO

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi...
HUNTER HAYES

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in ...
ED WESTWICK

I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nost...
JAMILA WOODS

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play ...
GEORGE BENSON

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of mak...
JOHN LYDON

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.&#...
BARBARA KRUGER

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of musi...
LADY GAGA

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i...
YOLANDA ADAMS

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high m...
JOSHUA BELL

You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's ...
CALEB JOHNSON

I've kind of always tried to make it secondary to life, you know? The kind of music I make I think i...
JACK JOHNSON

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a...
MARK BRADFORD

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'...
SHANIA TWAIN

All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the sourc...
JACK BRUCE

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience...
CONOR OBERST

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you ca...
RANDY BACHMAN

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of w...
JEFF BUCKLEY

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you'r...
BILLY ECKSTINE

I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of m...
JAMIE XX

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often h...
ANNIE LENNOX

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
COMPAY SEGUNDO

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN

I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to ...
JOHNNY MATHIS

When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
BAT FOR LASHES

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You k...
TOMMY CHONG

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a l...
TIMBALAND

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'
NIKKI SIXX

I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it&...
BRAD PAISLEY

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like...
TOM WAITS

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own...
ARLO GUTHRIE

When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst...
LAUREN DAIGLE

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that ...
A. R. RAHMAN

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t...
COREY TAYLOR

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of...
ANNIE LENNOX

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man ...
TOM WAITS

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really ...
DELTA GOODREM

When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks ...
YOLANDA ADAMS

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t...
PATRICK STUMP

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