Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I 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.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

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

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Music is like film to me.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

For the chorus of ‚Secrets,‘ we used The Romantics‘ ‚Talking in Your Sleep‘ and ‚Pale Shelter‘ by Tears for Fears. It’s like hip-hop: just grab it.

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.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

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.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, ‚Did you hear about?‘ I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

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.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I like the sound a typewriter makes.

I don’t want to do free jazz! Because free jazz – which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering – isn’t actually free at all. It’s just constrained by what your muscles can do.

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’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

There’s always gonna be rock n‘ roll bands, there’s always gonna be kids that love rock n‘ roll records, and there will always be rock n‘ roll.

How I love David Bowie.

I’m pretty sure in my older years, I’ll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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.