3 December 2020 Charlie Haden The bass, no matter what kind of music you’re playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
3 December 2020 David Bowie I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
3 December 2020 Jerry Garcia I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
3 December 2020 Lil Wayne I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you’re going, someone’s supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
3 December 2020 Adam Lambert It’s been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I’ve experienced.
3 December 2020 Sting I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
3 December 2020 John Erskine Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
3 December 2020 Frank Zappa All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
3 December 2020 Brian Eno Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
3 December 2020 Nat King Cole Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
3 December 2020 Xun Zi Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
3 December 2020 John Lennon Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
3 December 2020 Norah Jones My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn’t because I wanted to make simple music. It’s because I don’t really have the chops.
