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.
Lady GagaNo one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.
Bruno MarsI do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.
Jerry SeinfeldSitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
Taylor SwiftTo 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.
Bad BunnyI sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Kurt CobainMy music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
Frank OceanI love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.
Dave GrohlIt’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.
Frank OceanThe game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.
The WeekndI grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.
Billie EilishNow, 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.
Steve JobsI make good music for long journeys.
The WeekndI’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what’s going on in their love lives.
Taylor SwiftIf one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar WildeAnd I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
David BowieMusic 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.
BonoMusic is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
John LennonMy 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.
Bob MarleyI’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
Brian EnoThere were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
DrakeI’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Lana Del ReyI don’t intend to stop making music.
Frank OceanBecause you have things like ‚American Idol‘ and you’ve got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it’s easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
Dave GrohlLife is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganMusic is really driving my whole life.
Ariana GrandeIn 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
Kevin GatesMy grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
Charles SpurgeonObviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.
Frank OceanI’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.
Lady GagaHe who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich NietzscheThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert SchweitzerIf you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas CarlyleIt’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn MonroeOne of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor SwiftPhilosophy is the highest music.
PlatoI was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven WrightI would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.
David BowieI wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
Beyonce KnowlesThis land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob DylanRap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt CobainThe fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.
Bad BunnyI don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
Taylor Swift‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
Billie EilishI definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
Kanye WestMy purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.
The WeekndI 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWhen I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David ThoreauAll my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.
Dolly PartonI could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.
Bruno MarsIt’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. 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.
Taylor SwiftI’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.
David ByrneI wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
David BowieYes, 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.
Joel OsteenMy fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.
Taylor SwiftI love good, loud speakers.
Brian EnoI decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
Lady GagaThe only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.
Kevin Gates‚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.
Bruno Mars