My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark TwainThe best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-PowellIt’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
RihannaTelevision sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.
David ByrneI don’t read books much.
LeBron JamesEveryone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
DJ KhaledGive yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
Wayne DyerWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleI read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Bill GatesThere is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.
Jurgen KloppDuke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. ThompsonAll books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
John RuskinFun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard BransonI wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Kurt CobainFill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
Charles SpurgeonI have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.
Taylor SwiftWhen I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard M. NixonMusic for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo CoelhoI spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
Ray BradburyYou have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John LennonI was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven WrightI really love the culture of hip-hop.
Nipsey HussleI spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
Karl LagerfeldI wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.
David BowieThe songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob DylanI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxSinging aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.
Brian EnoWhen I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.
Bob UeckerBooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
ChanakyaIt 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.
James BaldwinI 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.
Lana Del ReyIf I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey HepburnRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliThey say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
Kanye WestHaving listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy WinehouseAt the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
Lady GagaPeople should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.
Bill GatesI sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
Elvis PresleyAging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint EastwoodI’m committed to the fight game.
Conor McGregorI’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.
DrakeI’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
David ByrnePunk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
David ByrneWhoever the coach is, my job is to talk to him, understand him and be a better player under him and give my best.
Sunil ChhetriHowever, there’s no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
David BowieI pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
J. ColeI confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. MenckenI get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.
Nipsey HussleWhen I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
Jackie RobinsonA Khaled record is always the best.
DJ KhaledMum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘
Terry PratchettIf this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
Lady GagaMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SocratesI always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.
Bruno MarsMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyWhenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Haruki MurakamiWhen ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.
EminemSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis BaconSo there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.
Lady Gaga