Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.

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

I used to think that, given enough goodwill, anybody would be able to ‚get‘ any music, no matter how distant the culture from which it came. And then I heard Chinese opera.

I really wish I knew what I was doing because I’d be writing hit songs every minute.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

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

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I think ‚Hail to the Chief‘ has a nice ring to it.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I’ve never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can.

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

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

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

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

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.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn’t even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.

I hate the idea of genres.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

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.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

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.‘

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.