3 December 2020 Brian Eno I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’
3 December 2020 Peter Tork Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it’s too late to become a musician afterwards.
3 December 2020 Layne Staley It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don’t see that same intimacy happening very much today.
3 December 2020 Yancy Butler My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen And whether you’re drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
3 December 2020 Kristin Scott Thomas I still absolutely love ‘The Sound of Music’ and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
3 December 2020 Willie Nelson I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Buffett There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.
3 December 2020 John Mayer Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that’s just not going to happen in my lifetime.
3 December 2020 Eminem Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
3 December 2020 David Byrne You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel I can’t think of one person I’ve ever met who didn’t like some type of music.
3 December 2020 Diablo Cody Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It’s kind of like the indie music scene.
3 December 2020 John Hughes I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion – very powerful emotions. That’s what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and – people identify with that.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‘easy listening,’ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
3 December 2020 Danny Boyle You can have great sequences with music, but if you don’t have the acting you’re bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you’re like, ‘So what?’
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
3 December 2020 Maurice Sendak There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
