Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt CobainMusic, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph AddisonMusic is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl LagerfeldI don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Elvis PresleyLyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
Brian EnoI couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.
David BowieI’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.
Lady GagaThis is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
Kendrick LamarI didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del ReyI believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.
Brian EnoI don’t intend to stop making music.
Frank OceanI learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis PresleyWhen I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘
Taylor SwiftI was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.
Dave GrohlThe great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
BonoThe devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William ShakespeareI’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.
Kevin GatesI alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert FrostThat thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.
George BestI was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
The WeekndI make good music for long journeys.
The WeekndI’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
EminemIf you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
Amy WinehouseI want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.
Frank OceanA letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Taylor SwiftMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaRock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
BonoI grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
Bruno MarsI’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
David ByrneIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BonoI wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
Beyonce KnowlesMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoIt’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.
Dave GrohlBeing an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‚artist‘ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.
Billie EilishI’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.
David Bowie‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
The WeekndPeople are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.
David ByrneAnd I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David BowieI’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.
Dolly PartonMy songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.
Dolly PartonI think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
EminemAll the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank ZappaUntil it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.
BonoWhen I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David BowieI was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady GagaI just want to keep writing music.
Lady GagaI put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
Taylor SwiftI live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.
Richard Branson‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.
The WeekndI grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.
RihannaSome people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
Frank OceanMy favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.
Kanye WestI just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.
Billie EilishI always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.
Bruno MarsMadonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.
Kanye WestWe uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.
Billie EilishI think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.
BonoOpen Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.
Mark ZuckerbergNo, I can’t do rap music!
Dolly Parton