My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. Jessica Sanchez
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. Barbara Januszkiewicz
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. Saul Williams
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. Nat King Cole
Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. Aulis Sallinen
Country music has always sort of been country music. Miranda Lambert
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. Hans Hofmann
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right. Scott Stapp
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. John Philip Sousa
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. Carlos Santana
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. Harry Connick, Jr.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know. Sun Ra
There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever. Harry Connick, Jr.
Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say. Kristin Hersh
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. Harry Connick, Jr.
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. Harry Connick, Jr.
Music is what I love to do it's in my veins. Demi Lovato
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing. Rod Stewart
I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea. Katherine Jenkins