Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van BeethovenAnd I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
Barack ObamaI’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.
Taylor SwiftI don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
Lady GagaWe have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt DisneyThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert EinsteinImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganThere’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.
Richard BransonI’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
Brian EnoForeignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
Margaret AtwoodMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyI seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina JolieI’ve discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that’s already there.
Brian EnoWithout this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl JungHong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Anthony BourdainThought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas CarlyleI’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.
Bad BunnyOne 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 EnoI didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del ReyA ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Margaret AtwoodMany are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo da VinciI don’t just listen to rap.
Kevin GatesOne of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
Taylor SwiftI’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
Dave GrohlWhen I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki MurakamiHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconMusic is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
PlatoMe only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
Bob MarleyI’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.
Elon MuskYou need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.
Tom BradyI sang a lot of low stuff on songs like ‚Secrets‘ and ‚Rockin‘,‘ almost like Toni Braxton. On ‚Secrets,‘ I’m a different person.
The WeekndSo many girls come up and say to me, ‚I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.‘ That’s the coolest compliment to me.
Taylor SwiftI grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.
Bruno MarsI have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.
Brian EnoI believe in a passion for inclusion.
Lady GagaAn author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.
Terry PratchettI like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Haruki MurakamiWhat I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.
Barack ObamaI always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.
Dolly PartonThe artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBut innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.
Steve JobsJust because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Bob DylanThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawMusic comes to me more readily than words.
Ludwig van BeethovenI enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank OceanI want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady GagaOriginality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas CarlyleI 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 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 BeethovenI wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.
Steven WrightRobert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
Brian EnoI can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.
Kevin HartThe fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.
Brian EnoI’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.
Robert GreeneOpera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Terry PratchettIn a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
Nikola TeslaThe desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
Steve JobsHip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
EminemA collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.
Karl Lagerfeld