3 December 2020 Carlos Santana First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
3 December 2020 Dennis Wilson The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak I became a set designer for opera. I’m a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
3 December 2020 Talib Kweli Ain’t nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
3 December 2020 Eric Clapton Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.
3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don’t even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don’t like it.
3 December 2020 Adele I doubt I’ll be singing forever, because at some point people aren’t going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I’ll still get the opportunity to write songs.
3 December 2020 Paracelsus Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
3 December 2020 Harry Connick, Jr. We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans’ musicians. It is called the Musicians’ Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
3 December 2020 Adam Lambert I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
3 December 2020 Ronnie James Dio Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
3 December 2020 Jessica Simpson Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don’t have to be doing it professionally. It’s not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don’t have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
3 December 2020 Lady Gaga I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.
3 December 2020 Bryan Ferry But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
3 December 2020 Hans Hofmann Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
3 December 2020 Paul Simon My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
3 December 2020 Jacques Barzun Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
3 December 2020 Elvis Presley Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’
3 December 2020 Rashida Jones Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
3 December 2020 Steve Martin I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there’s a lot of bluegrass there.
