Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
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Related I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. LINDA RONSTADT You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listeni... HARMONY KORINE I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,... COLM TOIBIN I listen mostly to classical music. ALEXANDRA FULLER I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. GYORGY LIGETI Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen... JENNI RIVERA When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, ... TOM GLAZER I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a l... TIMBALAND I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I ... ANAT COHEN If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. CHARLES FRAZIER I was listening to Ministry and Garth Brooks and Charlie Pride and Wynton Marsalis, and then I would... TROMBONE SHORTY My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro... HOZIER I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other... KAILASH KHER If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea... ALBERT EINSTEIN It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. SAM SMITH What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or w... NICK HORNBY Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? JOHN CUSACK I never listen to music when I'm writing. BEN FOUNTAIN Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s... J. K. SIMMONS '70s music is the kind of music I listen to. '70s clothes, I adore. BEL POWLEY I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I... KEHLANI Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would lis... ALAN MOORE I do not believe in file sharing or illegally downloading music. I pay for all my music. I listen to... JOE AVILA I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. ANNA AKHMATOVA When I have an easy run, I like to listen to music and relax. When I have to train hard, I try to si... FRANCISCO JAVIER GOMEZ NOYA I listen to gospel music. MARY J. BLIGE I listen to Christian music. MARIANO RIVERA I don't really listen to my old music. JOHN GRANT I never listen to music when I write. AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music. DAVID ARCHULETA I like to listen to Beyonce or any type of upbeat music when I am working out. Gospel music always m... SIMONE MANUEL Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternativ... BRAD DELSON In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m... POST MALONE When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then ... DMITRY MEDVEDEV When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ... NATHANIEL RATELIFF I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work.... ELAINE PAIGE I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ea... MIKE POSNER I believe in my music. RALPH STANLEY Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, an... DAVID LYNCH I believe in music. ZUBIN MEHTA Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm mor... TONY BLAIR I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby... HOZIER I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I dr... EMMA MCLAUGHLIN People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ANNE LAMOTT I listen to music constantly while writing. ORSON SCOTT CARD I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through th... ANDREA YATES When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than a... KIRI TE KANAWA I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. BRIAN ENO You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' b... JHENE AIKO It's one of my biggest hobbies. I started when I was 8 years old. Then I went to music high school i... BERNIE WILLIAMS I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning. WILLIAM MAPOTHER I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage. AARON PAUL I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of... ERIK LARSON I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my... KATE BUSH I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. MAYER HAWTHORNE If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea... ALBERT EINSTEIN Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspi... BELLA THORNE When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what... AVICII Today, I went on to my neighbor's house and told them, "You will listen to great music whether you l... BHAVIK SARKHEDI We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm re... KATEE SACKHOFF If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ESTELLE Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'... DAMIAN MARLEY I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up wi... SAMMY HAGAR I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I... CAITLIN ROSE I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environm... BRIAN ENO I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of... ANTHONY MINGHELLA I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls. ED OXENBOULD I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. MARILYNNE ROBINSON When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the spe... BILLY JOEL I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing... RONALDINHO I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. DAVID JOHANSEN I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country mus... NATALIE MAINES I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry n... JOHN FRUSCIANTE My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody l... A. R. RAHMAN I'm not into all that pop music. It's convenient because I can store up to 500 songs and listen to w... ERIC HAMILTON If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority. MAIA MITCHELL I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f... GRETCHEN WILSON Whenever I want to listen to some silent music, I always play blank tapes. JALAL ERRAZI I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'... AARON TVEIT I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help pe... FANTASIA BARRINO Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds. SAMPHA When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration... BEN HOROWITZ I really like listening to music in my car. AARON NEVILLE I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. KATEY SAGAL I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it. BECKY G I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I'll just type in 'Tibetan meditation mus... MICHELLE PHAN I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music. JOHN FRUSCIANTE I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project. BILL WYMAN I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic. DEAN BAKOPOULOS My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music. POST MALONE I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or som... VANITY My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to... FLEUR EAST If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if fo... LANGHORNE SLIM Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway! LAURA OSNES When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about ... SERJ TANKIAN
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MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth... MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any... MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' MAYA ANGELOU Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to... MAYA ANGELOU Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. MAYA ANGELOU I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it hap... MAYA ANGELOU We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ... MAYA ANGELOU we had been each other’s home and center for seventeen years. He could die if he wanted to and go ... MAYA ANGELOU If the heart of Africa remained elusive, my search for it had brought me closer to understanding mys... MAYA ANGELOU Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It... MAYA ANGELOU Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. MAYA ANGELOU My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into th... MAYA ANGELOU Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your
attitude. Don't complain... MAYA ANGELOU For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors cl... MAYA ANGELOU kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, ... MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any oth... MAYA ANGELOU Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the col... MAYA ANGELOU Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they... MAYA ANGELOU I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the peo... MAYA ANGELOU The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This... MAYA ANGELOU Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is n... MAYA ANGELOU Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the futu... MAYA ANGELOU Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just anoth... MAYA ANGELOU I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something, and I'm not leaving until I'm finished. MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, a... MAYA ANGELOU Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped bef... MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be ... MAYA ANGELOU See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then youâ€... MAYA ANGELOU The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. MAYA ANGELOU You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. MAYA ANGELOU Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! MAYA ANGELOU You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead ... MAYA ANGELOU Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. MAYA ANGELOU I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wante... MAYA ANGELOU I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to ... MAYA ANGELOU When you learn, teach, when you get, give. MAYA ANGELOU All God's children need traveling shoes. MAYA ANGELOU Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All ... MAYA ANGELOU Here on the pulse of this new day,/ You may have the grace to look up and out/ And into your sister'... MAYA ANGELOU I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." MAYA ANGELOU this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ... MAYA ANGELOU Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poe... MAYA ANGELOU The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and h... MAYA ANGELOU I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. MAYA ANGELOU Segregation shaped me; education liberated me. MAYA ANGELOU I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know. MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i... MAYA ANGELOU The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t... MAYA ANGELOU