3 December 2020 Evelyn Glennie Music is about communication… it isn’t just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it’s something far, far deeper than that.
3 December 2020 Nina Simone I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
3 December 2020 Joey Ramone To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.
3 December 2020 Dick Dale I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
3 December 2020 Lauryn Hill Hip-Hop isn’t just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can’t just call Hip-Hop a trend!
3 December 2020 David Guetta I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones Maybe I’m genetically more inclined to music – but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
3 December 2020 Adam Lambert After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You’re glad someone’s done it but you don’t necessarily want to listen to it.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno There are certain sounds that I’ve found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
3 December 2020 Carlos Santana I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
3 December 2020 Aulis Sallinen If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
3 December 2020 Bob Newhart I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
3 December 2020 Robert Plant You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven’t listened to in years.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
3 December 2020 Alice Cooper City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it’s chaotic and you never know what’s gonna happen. And that’s the music – you never know what’s gonna happen.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I don’t care what people say about my relationship I don’t care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I’m getting incredible feedback from my music.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient – ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
