3 December 2020 Bryan Adams I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
3 December 2020 Buddy Guy I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they’re there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
3 December 2020 Maria Sharapova Music is a part of my life all the time – on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
3 December 2020 Cat Stevens I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I’ve always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers – whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
3 December 2020 Michael Stipe Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.
3 December 2020 Eric Clapton Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
3 December 2020 Ravi Shankar Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it’s a good, earned feeling now.
3 December 2020 Roy Ayers The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
3 December 2020 Dave Grohl When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally.
3 December 2020 David Byrne People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.
3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don’t think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn’t put it out in the world!
3 December 2020 Brian Eno The 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.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.
3 December 2020 Neil Young Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there’s a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it’s all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
3 December 2020 Dave Lombardo Mike Patton is a genius… It is definitely the hardest music I’ve ever played.
3 December 2020 Toru Takemitsu Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
3 December 2020 Plato Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
