The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David BowieWhat inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.
Billie EilishMy style influences my music and everything around me.
Bad BunnyI don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
Taylor SwiftI really am a fan of Ye’s music.
Nipsey HussleDoing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.
David ByrneI’ve choreographed all of my movies.
Jackie ChanI didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.
Kanye WestIt doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.
Taylor SwiftThis 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 never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.
Kurt CobainI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalI have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhen I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.
David ByrneI never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.
Dave GrohlMilitary justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho MarxPeople 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 ByrneYou can’t really imagine music without technology.
Brian EnoI love Wiz Khalifa.
Taylor SwiftI didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.
Mr. TI’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
Dave GrohlIn that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.
Harper Lee‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
The WeekndFor the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.
The WeekndIn westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
John WayneThere’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
J. ColeIf I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert EinsteinOne of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you’re allowed to fail.
David ByrneI want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
EminemThere, 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.
David BowieI 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 BransonIt’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.
Denzel WashingtonGenres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
Margaret AtwoodWhen we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David ByrneWriting for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
Bruno MarsWe based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.
Vivienne WestwoodMusic is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van BeethovenI was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven WrightMusic belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.
Bad BunnyI just want to keep writing music.
Lady GagaI love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.
DJ KhaledIf you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BonoMusic from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
Ludwig van BeethovenHollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Kevin HartEvery movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Clint EastwoodNo greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
EpictetusWhen it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
David BowieI think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
EminemI met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
J. ColeI’m an iPod person.
Karl LagerfeldNone of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.
Angelina JolieGetting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.
Taylor SwiftHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconI sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Adam SandlerThe basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Mark ZuckerbergMy fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
J. ColeWhen I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
The WeekndI don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
David ByrneLife is a song to me.
Dolly Parton