I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
Dolly PartonI used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.
BonoI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
Amy WinehouseSometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.
Jackie ChanI listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.
Billie EilishWhen I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘
Taylor SwiftIn my day, there were no vet video games.
Karl LagerfeldSometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. SeussI was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey HepburnMusic is in my DNA!
RihannaFor 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 WeekndThere is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMusic 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 GrohlI’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.
Bad BunnyI really miss being able to blend in with people.
Kurt CobainI once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.
Noam ChomskyPeople want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen KingMy wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.
Lou HoltzOne of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
Kurt VonnegutI really am a fan of Ye’s music.
Nipsey HussleSince the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don’t think I’m camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
David BowieThere’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.
Dave GrohlSongs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor SwiftAs a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday’s dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.
Haruki MurakamiThe Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.
The WeekndWhat I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl LagerfeldI now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.
J. ColeA special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
George LucasI 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 BowieI think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
Kurt VonnegutNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George EliotThere wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.
George LucasWhen I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.
Lana Del ReyIf there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
EminemAll my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Ray BradburyI knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.
Dwayne JohnsonWhenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Haruki MurakamiI don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
Maya AngelouMusic is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady GagaI’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.
Taylor SwiftI wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.
The WeekndObviously, 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.
Frank OceanI really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.
Billie EilishI 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 BransonI wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
Frank OceanAt first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
AuroraMaybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.
Alice MunroI never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
David BowieMost people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank ZappaIt’s terrifying to play your favorite band’s song in front of your favorite band.
Dave GrohlIt’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.
RihannaSome people are making music just for numbers and views.
Bad BunnyWhen we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David ByrneYou aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.
The WeekndMy music is a luxury.
Lana Del ReyI used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.
Dolly PartonWhen 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 feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
Frank OceanI’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.
Billie EilishI love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
Maya Angelou