3 December 2020 Etta James You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
3 December 2020 Diane Kruger I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
3 December 2020 Kesha I’m writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I’ve already written.
3 December 2020 Charles de Lint Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician’s music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
3 December 2020 John Entwistle I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that’s coming out.
3 December 2020 Gustav Mahler If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
3 December 2020 Gary Wright Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
3 December 2020 Lil Wayne I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
3 December 2020 Leopold Stokowski A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi I haven’t heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I’m listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. There’s an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim – the album with ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’ That’s the most seductive music ever.