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I care about writing music and playing my music.
CARLA BRUNI I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE![]()
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I...
MAURY YESTON![]()
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The...
TRENT REZNOR![]()
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmon...
TRENT REZNOR I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with C...
JOHN TESH What we'll find is that next week some of the music is gone. The week after that, even more is gone....
ERIC SCHEIRER![]()
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON![]()
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, ...
MAYA ANGELOU![]()
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM![]()
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
GEORGE ELIOT![]()
Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
ZARA LARSSON![]()
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a li...
BOB SEGER![]()
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER![]()
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT![]()
Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t...
ALBERT EINSTEIN![]()
I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.
KEVIN GATES I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ...
LINDA EVANS I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic...
BILL LASWELL I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
DUNCAN SHEIK I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,
BENJAMIN LEVY Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT But I don't think it's a good thing to create less than good music in a world that's full of a lot o...
GEORGE CRUMB![]()
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
E. L. DOCTOROW I don’t really want fame and fortune; I just want to enjoy playing my music for people that enjoy ...
SARA ALINA![]()
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC I envision a musical piece where all music genres and all nationalities and a bunch of children all ...
SHANA ODEN There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.
TROY CARTER![]()
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads r...
JAMES WOLCOTT With creativity; less is more. Without creativity; less is less.
RONALD ANTON![]()
Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.
CHRISTINA ENGELA To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich....
NED ROREM![]()
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN She will be playing Indian music, based on raga, which is something unique to Indian classical music...
KANNIKS KANNIKESWARAN I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or ...
WAYNE COYNE![]()
And I like music, too, I like playing music.
BEAU BRIDGES![]()
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance ...
ELLIS HADLOCK Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bar...
JASON ROBERT BROWN![]()
Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
ROBERT BROWNING![]()
It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kin...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN![]()
Well, when I'm writing the music, I just follow my fingers, and follow the thread that hopefully eme...
BOB WEIR My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like ...
CARMINE COPPOLA![]()
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, ...
EDIE BRICKELL![]()
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
LINDA RONSTADT Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER![]()
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co...
LADY GAGA It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days,
LALAH HATHAWAY There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les...
LYNN BEATTIE![]()
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even brid...
OMAR SHARIF I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
YU ZHILIANG Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
ICE CUBE Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ...
OLIVIA D'ABO You live by music, I live by quotes, a quote is music just without the melody.
YAHYA MOHAMUD I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
BILLY SHERWOOD![]()
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you ...
MAC MILLER Consumers should not be able to listen to any music or enjoy any movie anywhere without our approval...
CARY SHERMAN![]()
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
FLEA![]()
I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and hav...
SHIRLEY MANSON![]()
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to su...
KID ROCK Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gra...
IDRIS ELBA![]()
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
CONRAD HALL![]()
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI![]()
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want...
DANIEL BARENBOIM![]()
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ...
REGGIE WATTS From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ...
TYLER FARR Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
HECTOR BERLIOZ In Rome, Matt had told her, ‘I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.’ That wa...
MICHELLE DE KRETSER![]()
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.
POST MALONE My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
ALEXANDER LUDWIG If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin...
AUSTIN CARLILE![]()
"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with musi...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN![]()
Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use o...
JHONEN VASQUEZ Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
BILL KREUTZMANN The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want,...
ADAM DAVIDSON![]()
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK![]()
A lot of the focus, at even the venues that support underground music, seems to be less on live musi...
JOHN HANCOCK Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would...
TROMBONE SHORTY I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.
BRODY ARMSTRONG![]()
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ...
JILL SCOTT![]()
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi...
STEVIE WONDER![]()
The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focuse...
MARILU HENNER I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL![]()
I want to see more grass and less pavement or sidewalks.
ADAM WEST![]()
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty muc...
JON ANDERSON Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about cont...
DAVID KNOPFLER![]()
I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain sty...
SAM HUNT I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always m...
SIMONE MANUEL![]()
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY
CARLA BRUNI I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way ...
BUZZ OSBORNE
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I... MAURY YESTON
I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The... TRENT REZNOR
When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmon... TRENT REZNOR I like writing different types of music. I like writing Christian music. I like collaborating with C...
JOHN TESH What we'll find is that next week some of the music is gone. The week after that, even more is gone....
ERIC SCHEIRER
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, ... MAYA ANGELOU
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. JEFF GOLDBLUM
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. GEORGE ELIOT
Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot. ZARA LARSSON
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a li... BOB SEGER
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co... WALTER BECKER
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT
Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in t... ALBERT EINSTEIN
I could care less about the particular. I like to make music. KEVIN GATES I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ...
LINDA EVANS I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic...
BILL LASWELL I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
DUNCAN SHEIK I listen to a lot less classical music today than I used to,
BENJAMIN LEVY Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT But I don't think it's a good thing to create less than good music in a world that's full of a lot o...
GEORGE CRUMB
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. E. L. DOCTOROW I don’t really want fame and fortune; I just want to enjoy playing my music for people that enjoy ...
SARA ALINA
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT Jane, the family and the doctors keep me going.
CHARLES MUSIC We're trying to stay ahead of the ball game. We feel we will qualify for grants and loans that are p...
CHARLES MUSIC As we grow, we have to do a better job of treating the waste.
CHARLES MUSIC I envision a musical piece where all music genres and all nationalities and a bunch of children all ...
SHANA ODEN There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter.
TROY CARTER
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads r... JAMES WOLCOTT With creativity; less is more. Without creativity; less is less.
RONALD ANTON
Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music. CHRISTINA ENGELA To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich....
NED ROREM
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of communit... CARRIE BROWNSTEIN She will be playing Indian music, based on raga, which is something unique to Indian classical music...
KANNIKS KANNIKESWARAN I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or ...
WAYNE COYNE
And I like music, too, I like playing music. BEAU BRIDGES
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music. EDGAR WRIGHT Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance ...
ELLIS HADLOCK Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bar...
JASON ROBERT BROWN
Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words. ROBERT BROWNING
It was just playing music. I didn't have any intention for it. I knew that I enjoyed making this kin... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Well, when I'm writing the music, I just follow my fingers, and follow the thread that hopefully eme... BOB WEIR My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like ...
CARMINE COPPOLA
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, ... EDIE BRICKELL
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. LINDA RONSTADT Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, co... LADY GAGA It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days,
LALAH HATHAWAY There's a lot of anxiety ... Someone retires and we're just doing without. We're just doing with les...
LYNN BEATTIE
I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even brid... OMAR SHARIF I compose and he doesn't compose. I cannot admire the composition of his music, only a few songs are...
YU ZHILIANG Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
ICE CUBE Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ...
OLIVIA D'ABO You live by music, I live by quotes, a quote is music just without the melody.
YAHYA MOHAMUD I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
BILLY SHERWOOD
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you ... MAC MILLER Consumers should not be able to listen to any music or enjoy any movie anywhere without our approval...
CARY SHERMAN
Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great. FLEA
I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and hav... SHIRLEY MANSON
I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to su... KID ROCK Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gra...
IDRIS ELBA
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem. CONRAD HALL
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the ... LEONARDO DA VINCI
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want... DANIEL BARENBOIM
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that ... REGGIE WATTS From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing ...
TYLER FARR Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
LOUIS-HECTOR BERLIOZ Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
HECTOR BERLIOZ In Rome, Matt had told her, ‘I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.’ That wa...
MICHELLE DE KRETSER
My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. POST MALONE My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
ALEXANDER LUDWIG If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin...
AUSTIN CARLILE
"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with musi... LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music... LEONARD BERNSTEIN As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use o...
JHONEN VASQUEZ Playing music is just one of the best things. I can't retire.
BILL KREUTZMANN The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want,...
ADAM DAVIDSON
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK
A lot of the focus, at even the venues that support underground music, seems to be less on live musi... JOHN HANCOCK Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music ...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would...
TROMBONE SHORTY I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.
BRODY ARMSTRONG
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. ... JILL SCOTT
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... STEVIE WONDER
The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focuse... MARILU HENNER I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
I want to see more grass and less pavement or sidewalks. ADAM WEST
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ... BILLIE HOLIDAY When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty muc...
JON ANDERSON Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about cont...
DAVID KNOPFLER
I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain sty... SAM HUNT I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always m...
SIMONE MANUEL
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and... BILLIE HOLIDAY
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. 
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are t... 
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. 