3 December 2020 Sting I feel this music has nurtured me as I’ve been immersing myself in it. I’ve felt supported by it.
3 December 2020 Stevie Nicks It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
3 December 2020 Katherine Jenkins My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S… what singer doesn’t have that dream?
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
3 December 2020 Paul Hindemith There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
3 December 2020 Johann Sebastian Bach Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
3 December 2020 Archie Shepp Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
3 December 2020 Avril Lavigne Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.
3 December 2020 Steve Jobs It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
3 December 2020 Warren G. Bennis Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
3 December 2020 Tupac Shakur Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
3 December 2020 Talib Kweli The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it’s like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it’ll be a hip-hop song. That’s the only music you can do that with.
3 December 2020 Plato Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ’em over and over.
3 December 2020 Ray Charles Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
3 December 2020 Charlie Trotter A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.
3 December 2020 Pete Townshend What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
3 December 2020 Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.
3 December 2020 Eric Clapton It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
3 December 2020 James Taylor If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
3 December 2020 Dan Hawkins We’re real people and we’re a band that’s been playing on the scene for a long time. We’ve made a lot of friends, and one enemy we’ve always had was the NME. They’ve always basically slated us and they’ve basically never ever written about the music.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
