3 December 2020 Eric Clapton From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn’t need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you’d think it’d be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it’s quite comforting.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.
3 December 2020 Kesha I know that I can sing. That’s the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
3 December 2020 Manuel Puig I’m not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I’ve never intended to be controversial, but it’s very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
3 December 2020 Joan Jett Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
3 December 2020 David Duchovny I don’t need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
3 December 2020 Neil Young My music isn’t anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock’n’roll, and it has an urgency to it.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I’m making music because we write it together and produce it together. I’ve got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.
3 December 2020 Stevie Wonder Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you’re a diva. They can’t believe after eight years, and eight albums, you’re still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
3 December 2020 John Stamos I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.
3 December 2020 Paula Cole If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It’s one way to answer the question, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I feel music answers it better.
3 December 2020 William Congreve Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
3 December 2020 Shania Twain My music must reflect whatever’s going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I’m becoming.
3 December 2020 Scott Weiland Great classic music that I’ve been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
3 December 2020 Jessica Sanchez My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.
3 December 2020 Toru Takemitsu I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense – about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe… about life.
