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 believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

I like Cardi B!

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

Music is really driving my whole life.

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.

When I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

My music is a luxury.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the ’80s and ’90s.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

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

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

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’ve made over 25 studio albums, and I think probably I’ve made two real stinkers in my time, and some not-bad albums, and some really good albums. I’m proud of what I’ve done. In fact it’s been a good ride.

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 do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Part 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.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

The 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.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

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.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

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.

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

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I’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.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.