I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.
J. ColeI made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.
Amy WinehouseBob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.
AuroraYou just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
Bob DylanI like Cardi B!
Nipsey HussleBeing 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 EilishEvery album, I make big records. I’m going to always make an anthem. That’s what I do.
DJ KhaledMan, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
Elvis PresleyI listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
Amy WinehouseI look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.
Taylor SwiftFor 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.
PlatoI didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
Dwayne JohnsonI love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.
RihannaI want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
EminemWhen I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
Clint EastwoodI don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Brian EnoMy first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
Dolly PartonI could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.
Bruno MarsNo press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
Lady GagaI like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis PresleyPeople are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
Kendrick LamarOne good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob MarleyI consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
Lady GagaI like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David ByrneWe uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.
Billie EilishThat’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.
Elvis PresleyI can dance to just about anything.
Bad BunnyI don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
Lady GagaI wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del ReyIf you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
Ray BradburyI think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya AngelouA composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank ZappaWhen I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David ThoreauI’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.
Taylor SwiftI wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
Brian EnoI like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
AuroraIt didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David ByrneFill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
Charles SpurgeonThe only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.
Kevin GatesMy fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
J. ColeI had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David BowieThere are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
Brian EnoThe effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.
The WeekndI wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘
Brian EnoPeople like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.
Taylor SwiftI didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
EminemI don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
Dave GrohlOne day, I’ll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it’s nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
J. ColeI was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
The WeekndAs long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick LamarWhen I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
Dave GrohlI can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.
Dolly PartonIf I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob DylanMusic 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 MarsThe boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.
Angelina JolieI could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.
David BowieI’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.
Taylor SwiftPeople 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 ByrneI feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.
DrakeI would love to study guitar or trumpet.
Amy Winehouse