3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn I’ve seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I’m proud I was there when it happened.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I’ve only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
3 December 2020 Christian Nestell Bovee Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
3 December 2020 Kid Rock That’s what I love from metal, and that’s what I love from hip-hop. That’s what I love from any music that’s hard, that’s got an edge to it-The attitude in it.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.
3 December 2020 Eminem If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
3 December 2020 Nina Simone I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
3 December 2020 Quentin Tarantino To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
3 December 2020 Meat Loaf Rock n’ Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That’s what rock n’ roll should do – take you to a better place.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I’m quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I’ve got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don’t really have to do much else.
3 December 2020 Iggy Pop I like music that’s more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
3 December 2020 Paul McCartney Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
3 December 2020 Charlie Parker They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
3 December 2020 Keith Richards The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
3 December 2020 Billy Joel We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
3 December 2020 Billy Corgan People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that’s gonna be unpopular.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I didn’t really see the British punk movement, if that’s what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
3 December 2020 Neil Young I don’t like to be labeled, to be anything. I’ve made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it’s counter-productive.
