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

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

There 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.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

There’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.

However, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.

No, I can’t do rap music!

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

There’s more good music being made now than ever before.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

I’ve started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I’d be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

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.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

I’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.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I’m no hillbilly singer.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Rock ‚n‘ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.