I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.
DJ KhaledI know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
Lady GagaMy production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
The WeekndThe album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.
EminemPart of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.
Steve JobsI never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.
Dave GrohlMick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.
Dave GrohlI never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David ByrneThe funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
Paul AusterWhat I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
Karl LagerfeldYou go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.
David ByrneI love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice WalkerYou can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
David HareThe colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
Elvis PresleyChicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
Dave GrohlIn the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Brian EnoI taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He’s not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
Douglas AdamsI ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye WestWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesI’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.
The WeekndMine 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.‘
Dolly PartonI’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.
David ByrneI love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.
Kevin HartI didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.
Amy WinehouseMy fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
J. ColeMusic is something no one can control.
Bad BunnyPuerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
Bad BunnyFantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.
Terry PratchettMusic is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
PlatoIn Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki MurakamiWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas CarlyleLove is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.
Ray BradburyIt’s important to love in hip hop.
Nipsey HussleI can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.
RihannaWhen 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 ReySick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence NightingaleYou can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.
Billie EilishYou can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.
Taylor SwiftI’m a painter in sound.
Brian EnoThe man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William ShakespeareHow I love David Bowie.
Lady GagaLike music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy CarterRap was more of a release for me, a journal.
Kevin GatesThirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye WestLook, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.
Bob DylanI’m a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker’s ‚You Are So Beautiful‘ and Eric Clapton’s ‚Wonderful Tonight‘ – songs that go straight to the point.
Bruno MarsMy style influences my music and everything around me.
Bad BunnyAll of my music is honest.
The WeekndI guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
Lady GagaI have a very eclectic iPod. So I’ve got my cardio people – so it’s anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song ‚Tightrope,‘ that’s a good cardio song. And then I’ve got Sting. I’ve got Mary J. Blige. I’ve got The Beatles. I’ve got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.
Michelle ObamaI belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
Brian EnoIf my life was a movie, no one would believe it.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerUntil it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.
BonoWe have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
Anthony HopkinsAs human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
David HareI love story songs because I’ve always loved books.
Dolly PartonI have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
Keanu ReevesPeople – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
RihannaThe secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
George LucasA tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan