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That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a wo... HARRY STYLES You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you ca...
RANDY BACHMAN America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it...
TAYLOR HAWKINS
In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation o... STORMZY Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or ...
KARA DIOGUARDI
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho... CLIVE DAVIS But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
ISAAC HANSON The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
COMPAY SEGUNDO
There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and... BILL CONTI
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. JOHN LENNON In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no ot...
LARRY MULLEN, JR.
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap ab... CHANCE THE RAPPER The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively...
RIZ AHMED
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. TIPPER GORE traditional folk music and dance in India ,specially women oriented . every folk music has a homely ...
LITYMUNSHI
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of y... SERJ TANKIAN
'Filk' is the folk music of the science fiction and fantasy community - you get parodies, yo... SEANAN MCGUIRE
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ... PENN JILLETTE Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ...
NEIL YOUNG
There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what i... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming... JACK BLACK
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - espe... JULIA SAWALHA
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... OZZY OSBOURNE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j...
NEIL YOUNG
There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.'... CLARENCE THOMAS The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so...
FLUME
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of p... MOBY
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c... SHAWN AMOS There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60'...
TAYLOR HANSON Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clea...
BUZZ OSBORNE Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D
I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone els... KEHLANI
Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience... CONOR OBERST Jazz and Cuba are inexorably tied together; it's not a branch from a tree. Latin music is part o...
ARTURO O'FARRILL
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own... ARLO GUTHRIE People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's s...
ERIC LEWIS It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialist...
GAVIN BRYARS 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to tran...
EDDI READER
If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older. JOHNNY VAN ZANT Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there&#...
TRISTAN WILDS There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, bu...
ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN
The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there. JONATHAN TROPPER The idea was to develop a music class primarily for students who aren't a part of traditional school...
LAVON OKE My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.
DYLAN MINNETTE One thing I never thought about when we signed with Epitaph is how much music can change these kids'...
ANDREW JORDAN Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their...
RONNIE JAMES DIO I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out...
BRENDAN FRASER I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th...
KAKI KING And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - b...
NOBUO UEMATSU
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back roo... PAUL STANLEY
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can... BONO The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music...
JONATHAN GALASSI There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then ...
DMITRY MEDVEDEV Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica...
THE EDGE I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN
I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all be... GREG GRAFFIN
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. FLEA Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is...
DAN AUERBACH It's what's missing, I think, from most music - the rebellious part. That rebelliousness is ...
GLENN DANZIG
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about ... FLEA
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. KURT COBAIN There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the perform...
LEO ORNSTEIN I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at ... EVELYN GLENNIE
The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can't make music. KEVIN GATES
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That'... JASON MORAN You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically...
LANCE REDDICK Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
CHARLIE BYRD World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. A...
L.A. REID If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that c...
GREG GINN
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it... AVA DUVERNAY It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin...
ALLISON ROBERTSON
I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents w... EDDIE VEDDER Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We we...
BOB GAUDIO I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla...
F. GARY GRAY
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... HARRY STYLES I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
FEFE DOBSON You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and ...
CHARLES KING
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th... KATE SMITH I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
HALEY REINHART I think what's cool about Slayer is no matter how old their albums are, it's the one band to...
BLAKE ANDERSON But the smooth-jazz listener is not really serious about music as opposed to the lover of traditiona...
JACK SIMPSON Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... LIL UZI VERT
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w... ELVIS PRESLEY
I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That'... BRIAN MAY Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour...
ADAM RICH TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it come...
DREW SIDORA I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Ma...
DANIEL ALARCON
You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. TIPPER GORE For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining diff...
LUKA SULIC You're encouraged when you get older to get mellow, get reflective, get laid back. I don't understan...
STEVE WYNN That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest ...
JONATHAN JACKSON
My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She ... JON PARDI
'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes ... IGGY POP
