And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
John D. RockefellerLooking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
Kurt CobainIt’s not enough to train today’s workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow’s workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
Barack ObamaWhen my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.
DJ KhaledI enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.
Brian EnoYou don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.
Ray BradburyMusic will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Dave GrohlIntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert EinsteinWhat turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
BonoIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Noam ChomskyThose people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Brian TracyThere is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
David ByrneNearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano.
David BowieLibraries raised me.
Ray BradburySome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander PopeEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinI’m a studio rat.
The WeekndYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaI put out tapes, but I always kept saying, ‚Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?‘ I was like, ‚I’d rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.‘ I always felt like an artist as well.
DJ KhaledI have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.
Lana Del ReyThere’s more good music being made now than ever before.
David ByrneI read every book there was on jazz, about the original players – King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that… I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.
Clint EastwoodWhen I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian EnoI couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.
Ray BradburyI grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.
Ariana GrandeTechnology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
David ByrneI want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.
EminemOne of my most popular songs, ‚Satellites,‘ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.
Kevin GatesI work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing ‚Don’t Smile at Me,‘ but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
Billie EilishI put together amazing records, whether that’s finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That’s me being an A&R. And I’m making sure that they give me their best.
DJ KhaledIt’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
RihannaI made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn’t, so in the end they just released it themselves.
Lana Del ReyI’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Karl LagerfeldI make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
Brian EnoI could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.
Anthony BourdainIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusWe’re making the music that the people are asking us for.
Bad BunnyYou have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
Michelle ObamaThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostI’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 BowieAll I do is make music.
The WeekndI think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
David BowieLiterally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.
The WeekndThere are times when I feel like I’m a traveling minister. I’m trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.
Dave GrohlTony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.
David BowieHe had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac AsimovWhen I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.
Brian EnoFormal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim RohnEducation is the best provision for old age.
AristotleSince I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
Taylor SwiftI think you’re working and learning until you die.
J. K. RowlingIt’s a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that’s a good thing.
Dave GrohlI spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I’m such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.
The WeekndWhen I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady GagaYeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
David ByrneI like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.
Brian EnoI could care less about the particular. I like to make music.
Kevin GatesAs long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
Hunter S. ThompsonUpon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Abraham Lincoln