I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

I 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.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When 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.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

I 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.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Music 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.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

I’m the king of the anthems.

A Khaled record is always the best.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I’m an iPod person.

In my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.