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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music. — Ron David

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. — Bob Dylan

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy. — Robert Greene

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out. — Christina Aguilera

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. — Lyle Lovett

He slid his saxophone under the bed before we got naked on it, and I think it made the whole thing better. I really do. — Charlie Close

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie — David Bowie

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. — Casey Abrams

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own. — Norah Jones

The breeze carried snatches of music from a large portable radio on the grass: a sugary song of love either lost or about to be. — Haruki Murakami

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music. — Daryl Hall

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator? — Victor Borge

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road. — Noel Gallagher

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.] — Cary Ann Hearst

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets
And the music of fresh fallen leaves
Caught in a sliding summer breeze. — Scott Hastie

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy

I'm a music lover and I hate to hate on any music because people are just doing their best. — Bridget Everett

I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car. — Joanna Garcia

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music. — Johnny Marr

When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet. — Juicy J

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music. — Scott Weiland

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing — David Lee Roth

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it. — Nancy Farmer

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. — Alex Kapranos

The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again. — Lauren DeStefano

The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. — Chuck D

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage. — Tom Jones

HOLDING ONTO HOPE
MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU!
HOLD ON — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead — Terry Pratchett

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage. — Bethany Cosentino

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire. — Chris Metzler

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. — Suzi Quatro

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that. — Al Yankovic

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. — Michel Faber

(On disco) I don't consider that a genre as much as a level of hell. — J.M. Hushour

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. — Bruno Mars

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination. — Thelonious Monk

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. — Freddie Mercury

Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court. — Maria Sharapova

I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it. — Marilou

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself. — Carrie Underwood

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. — Willie Nelson

I was reared on folk music. — Rufus Wainwright

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself. — Agnes Obel

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong

It's the kind of music you want to listen to while you lay on the grass and get lost in the sky. It feels like sunshine breaking on your skin. — Autumn Doughton

I love going on tour and playing music for people. — Moby

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow — Albert Einstein

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie

I love doing the music. I love programming beats and kind of working on the music as much, if not more, than the actual rapping. — Joaquin Phoenix

Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song — Warren DeMartini

I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ... — Bob Daisley

Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have. — Tyler Joseph

I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11. — Keith Stanfield

Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side! — Jake Holmes

All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest. — Kip Moore

Always pack your uniform on top. — Freddie Green

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. — Billy Eckstine

Beaches, music, and car rides - they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts. — Deb Caletti

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. — Will.i.am

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. — Danny Fox

Well then, music take me on that wonderful journey of my lost memories, and never take me back to reality. — Seth Hawkins

Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing. — Tony Oller

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music. — Henry Miller

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music. — Boy George

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.' — Rick Moranis

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. — Elton John

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself. — Idina Menzel

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself ... very dark in that way. — Janet Fitch

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music! — Austin Butler

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture ... that's me. — Eminem

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music. — Enrique Iglesias

In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music. — Richard L. Brandt

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. — Edgar Bronfman Jr.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey — Mike Dirnt

I tell the truth through music. Other people tend to catch on and agree with my truth and it turns out we are all really similar. — SZA

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant. — Virginia Smith

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. — James Blake

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise. — Missy Lyons

I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine. — Joshua Bell

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. — Aaron Copland

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert. — June Allyson

Reggae music really chills me out in my dressing-room before I head on stage. — Ella Henderson

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time. — Howard Shore

All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture. — James Iha

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music. — Linda Ronstadt

What I enjoy most about going out on stage is seeing all my fans react to my music. — LeAnn Rimes

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me. — Bobby Womack