To 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 don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.
Kevin GatesEvery nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
George W. BushThere is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
Kurt VonnegutI love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.
RihannaIf you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
BonoLet the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx‚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 EnoOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsNo matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganIs Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.
Friedrich NietzscheMy music is influenced by L.A. culture.
Nipsey HussleI can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
Amy WinehouseI hate the idea of genres.
Billie EilishMusic 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.
BonoThe cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas CarlyleFrom the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.
Nipsey HussleWe may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma GandhiWe must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. NixonHonestly, I never really put the mic down.
EminemThe American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
Joe BidenHow I love David Bowie.
Lady GagaI refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
Maya AngelouI think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor SwiftI find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander PopeI just want to keep writing music.
Lady GagaI long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya AngelouI 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 CobainFans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor SwiftWhatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
Martin LutherSmart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamYou go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.
David ByrneI don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
Bruno MarsI could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.
David BowieI think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.
AuroraA lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.
Dolly PartonI never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘
Brian EnoMusic was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.
David ByrneLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
Brian EnoI’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.
J. ColeThe lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.
Brian EnoWe do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.
Charles SpurgeonWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRap was more of a release for me, a journal.
Kevin GatesInformation helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
Maya AngelouGod’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuBarbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
Anthony BourdainAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen KellerPhish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
Jimmy BuffettWe are all alike, on the inside.
Mark TwainWhat I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.
Bruno MarsI think it’s really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
Billie EilishA good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘
Barack ObamaI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndIf you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest HemingwayI made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.
Amy WinehouseI’ve always tended to write songs prolifically.
David BowieThe miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother TeresaI wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.
Anthony Bourdain