No, I can’t do rap music!

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

I’m a painter in sound.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Rap was my drug.

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

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.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

I’m not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

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.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

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.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

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

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

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

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I love movement. I love moshing.

I 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.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

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

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

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.

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Music is really driving my whole life.

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer – I don’t know if they’d ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

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

I hate the idea of genres.

Puerto 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.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.