I love good, loud speakers.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.

I’m the king of the anthems.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

I’m a painter in sound.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users‘ experience.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I’m an iPod person.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

Google’s done a super good job on search; Apple’s done a great job on the IPod.

People 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.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.