From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.
Nipsey HussleI guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
Lady GagaIt 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 BaldwinThe more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt DisneyPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleWe may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).
Haruki MurakamiWomen are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn my songs, I’m not saying something that’s never been said before. The have lyrics aren’t going to blow people away. It’s the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
Bruno MarsYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich NietzscheI have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor SwiftWhen I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David BowiePhilosophy is the highest music.
PlatoRobyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.
RihannaRap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt CobainI 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.
David BowieLyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
Brian EnoI seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina JolieWhy, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Kanye WestHell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard ShawThere’s poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don’t like doing what people expect me to do.
Dave GrohlPeople assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian EnoThe fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?
Richard P. FeynmanIf it’s good music, it’s good music.
Billie EilishIt may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.
AuroraI didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
Lana Del ReyI found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.
David ByrneI’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.
J. ColeTo discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinGood psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham MaslowAll of my music is honest.
The WeekndI’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 ByrneThe prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.
Brian EnoThe lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.
Brian EnoToo often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor RooseveltI’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.
David BowieLook, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.
Bob DylanI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenThe animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice WalkerThis has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.
Frank OceanThe songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob DylanU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
BonoWhen you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The WeekndI don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John Lennon‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘
Brian EnoI have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
Bob MarleyPretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
Billie EilishMost of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.
Brian EnoI don’t think of Kurt as ‚Kurt Cobain from Nirvana‘. I think of him as ‚Kurt‘. It’s something that comes back all the time. Almost every day.
Dave GrohlThe difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
Madeleine AlbrightYou just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
Bob DylanMusic is something no one can control.
Bad BunnyLots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.
AuroraIf it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt CobainI like the idea of a kind of eternal music, but I didn’t want it to be eternally repetitive, either. I wanted it to be eternally changing. So I developed two ideas in that way. ‚Discreet Music‘ was like that, and ‚Music for Airports.‘ What you hear on the recordings is a little part of one of those processes working itself out.
Brian EnoDiscrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
Bill GatesWhen 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 ReyEvolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin