Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
Benjamin Earl King
Quotes to Explore
-
I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
Victoria Jackson
-
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
-
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush
-
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
Ice Cube
-
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
-
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
Daniel Ek
-
I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
-
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
Mandy Moore
-
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
Bebe Rexha
-
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
-
To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.
Flume
-
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
Tavi Gevinson
-
When all these huge offers start coming in, people see dollar signs. People see fame. I just knew that it was a lie. Unless you really hit it off in radio right away - a lot of my friends didn't, and they were getting put in so many horrible positions where they were getting stuck. They weren't even allowed to release music.
Jacob Whitesides
-
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
Daniel Johns
Silverchair
-
What was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith.
Dorothy Thompson
-
We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.
Kimbal Musk
-
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
Benjamin Earl King
