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.
David BowieMy music is a luxury.
Lana Del ReyIf being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
John LennonA man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. MenckenThis 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 OceanThere is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James BaldwinHonestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.
EminemIt didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.
David ByrneEverybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.
Joel OsteenI enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.
Stephen HawkingYour joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
Joyce MeyerModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola TeslaWe’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonI think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya AngelouI don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie EilishI think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen HawkingWe were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.
Bob UeckerThere’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
J. ColeAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.
AuroraI know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.
Bruno MarsIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouIt is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Kurt CobainIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsA man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert SchweitzerLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsWhen I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘
Taylor SwiftWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillHell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard ShawTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SocratesAll theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAt 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.
Jimmy BuffettWhen I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.
RihannaOpen Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.
Mark Zuckerberg‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.
The WeekndOne is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.
Jean-Paul SartreDoing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.
David ByrneMy life is my argument.
Albert SchweitzerThe voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
Stephen HawkingI’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
Dave GrohlYou have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John LennonWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinLife is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia WoolfDeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
PlatoLife’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne DyerI think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
Elon MuskI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfOccasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.
David ByrneA song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob DylanIn the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
Brian EnoI always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
Kevin GatesMusic is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
PlatoI don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
David ByrneThe Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
Anthony BourdainLife begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul SartreIf you don’t live your life, then who will?
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