The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.
Lady GagaIf 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 WinehouseYou get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
Taylor SwiftThere’s more good music being made now than ever before.
David ByrneI replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I’m the only one moving.
Steven WrightMind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William ShakespeareThere are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
Frank ZappaI don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie EilishSearching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.
David BowieI’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.
Taylor SwiftI like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki MurakamiI love good, loud speakers.
Brian EnoI didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
EminemMusic is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon BonaparteThe opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MenckenI think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?
Taylor SwiftWhen I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
Dave GrohlI’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave GrohlI can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.
Bob DylanOn a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.
Keanu ReevesYou know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.
Dave GrohlWhen we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.
Taylor SwiftI only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
Ludwig van BeethovenI 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 say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.
Dolly PartonThere’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.
Dave GrohlWhen my record comes on, you know that’s a DJ Khaled record. That’s my formula, and the people love it.
DJ KhaledI try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.
DrakeI’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
Dave GrohlI just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.
The WeekndI’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.
Virat KohliWe 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.
Vivienne WestwoodIt is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenI collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.
Haruki MurakamiMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaI’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.
Billie EilishFor instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
Brian EnoMusic in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
Brian Eno‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
Billie EilishI wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.
Adam SandlerI own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
Kurt CobainTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndI don’t think a song should be put in a category.
Billie EilishOnce you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The WeekndI’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.
The WeekndOne of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.
Brian EnoObviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.
Bad BunnyI was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.
Kevin GatesMusic is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno MarsI sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.
The WeekndI find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya AngelouI wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Kurt CobainIn a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.
Maya AngelouFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoThis land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob DylanI’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
Taylor SwiftI became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob DylanYes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.
Joel OsteenI think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.
Dave GrohlMy music is a luxury.
Lana Del Rey