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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
Bill Gates

I am very thankful to the guys in Black Eyed Peas for launching my career and it's given me the chance to enjoy this solo career and explore my own musical style too.
Fergie

Music is what turns me on!
Karen Mulder

I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Alyssa Milano

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan Freberg

If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
Robert Coleman

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

I didn't take music seriously until I heard my first good piece of music. [which is fair enough... if it's not good music then why take it seriously Alan!]
Alan Hovhaness

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker

'Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!'
Courtney Love

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think the Beatles were that good
George Harrison

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

My family's a musical family
Erika Takacs

Music is fantastic, it is a real release, and that is why it is a common bond between different peoples and different cultures.
Jamie Foxx

I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
Roberta Flack

I feel like my little brother has inherited the same musical talents I've been blessed with.
Samantha Mumba

It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert Sitwell

'Until I realised that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.'
Bruce Springsteen

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

Three things that I've always wanted to play are a musician, a superhero, and a professional athlete.
Danny Nucci

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

It goes without saying that we will all miss Mutya, but we also knew there was still a place for bringing in somebody new who could help us carry on taking the Sugababes brand of music forward [Keisha Buchanan on losing Mutya]
Keisha Sugababes

All the sounds of the earth are like music.
Oscar Hammerstein

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience.
Georgie Fame

I want to keep making positive music that not only inspires me but everyone else out there to have hope in what they want to strive for.
Bryan White

In 1962 when rejecting the Beatles "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out"
Decca Recording

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!
Tyrese

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Truman Capote

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Earle Brown

I think for our fans, the one thing Sugababes has come to stand for above all else is our consistent and unique style of music
Keisha Sugababes

I nicked it from a record shop [ruby dont take your love to town] when I was 14. I had no money you see. Sorry shop owner. I used it to romance my first girlfriend christine. Whenever i hear it, it always takes me back to that wonderful summer. there was so much to discover, musically and otherwise.
Peter Hook

A woman scorned is an old theme in country music. I think what's changed are the values from which the music reflects real life.
Steven Curtis Chapman

Yes, I always feel that the music I like, and I genuinely like, the stuff I play on the radio is my own way of going out on the street and righting these wrongs that I think should be righted.
John Peel

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph Addison

I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's... the musical channel phenomenon has been exported successfully all over the world.
Doug Ferrari

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
Mencius

A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge.
Nelson Bryant

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
Minnie Aumonier



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