3 December 2020 Brian Eno Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
3 December 2020 Adele I like having my hair and face done, but I’m not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
3 December 2020 Yoko Ono Distance doesn’t exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
3 December 2020 Miriam Makeba It’s a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don’t see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
3 December 2020 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.
3 December 2020 Shania Twain Country music is still your grandpa’s music, but it’s also your daughter’s music. It’s getting bigger and better all the time and I’m glad to be a part of it.
3 December 2020 Layne Staley Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
3 December 2020 Adam Lambert I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock ‘n’ roll spirit, swagger to the game.
3 December 2020 Taylor Swift I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
3 December 2020 Maya Angelou Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
3 December 2020 Barry White We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
3 December 2020 Jack Black I don’t have any real spirituality in my life – I’m kind of an atheist – but when music can take me to the highest heights, it’s almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
3 December 2020 Amy Winehouse I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It’s simply a market chart.
3 December 2020 Pythagoras There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
3 December 2020 Keith Richards Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can’t do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
3 December 2020 Johnny Cash Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
3 December 2020 Sting I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there’s innocence contained in you but there’s also innocence in the process of being lost.
