All Quotes

The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

The muses visit when I'm lonely.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
‐‐ Saul Williams

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.
‐‐ John Varvatos

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

The music becomes something that is its own entity.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
‐‐ Clive Davis

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
‐‐ Brenda Lee

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
‐‐ Lou Reed

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.
‐‐ Joey McIntyre

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
‐‐ D'Angelo

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
‐‐ Amy Madigan

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.
‐‐ Jody Watley

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
‐‐ Tom Petty

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
‐‐ Jimmy Rushing

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
‐‐ Beth Gibbons

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
‐‐ Xavier Rudd

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
‐‐ Oscar Peterson

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

The music for 'The Departed' could have been played by an orchestra, but you make a decision about orchestration based on the context of the film. You want the music to broaden the scope of a film, not just repeat what you're seeing.
‐‐ Howard Shore

The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

The music I have created, along with the other Beach Boys, has taken me all over the world. For these past 50 years, I guess you could say, 'I get around.'
‐‐ Mike Love

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.
‐‐ Robert Palmer

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
‐‐ Jeff Vandermeer

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
‐‐ Ian Schrager

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
‐‐ Tammin Sursok

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.
‐‐ Jacob Lusk

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
‐‐ Flume

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
‐‐ Steve Winwood

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
‐‐ Jonathan Davis

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.
‐‐ Mika

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
‐‐ Michael Franti

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
‐‐ Richard Branson

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
‐‐ Jennifer Holliday

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.
‐‐ Kelis