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AFRIKA BAMBAATAA![]()
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. ...
SANDRA TSING LOH![]()
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT![]()
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people togethe...
BURNING SPEAR The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way...
DOUG MORRIS I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my...
KATE BUSH Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w...
AL JARREAU I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of m...
JAMIE XX![]()
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a mag...
LINDSEY STIRLING![]()
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's...
MATISYAHU I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame...
BEN MENDELSOHN Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibr...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD![]()
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a...
BABYFACE It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL![]()
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T![]()
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've go...
DANIEL BARENBOIM![]()
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi...
HUNTER HAYES![]()
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s...
LIAM GALLAGHER![]()
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import...
EZRA KOENIG What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS![]()
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en...
WASHED OUT Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way ...
TIESTO![]()
Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like some...
BURNING SPEAR When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN![]()
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a...
TEDDY THOMPSON![]()
Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they ...
STEVE AOKI With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ...
JIM DRAIN![]()
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ...
HENRY ROLLINS![]()
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN![]()
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running b...
A. R. RAHMAN I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN![]()
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho...
CLIVE DAVIS![]()
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ...
MICHAEL STIPE![]()
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound t...
TOM PETTY Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t...
PATRICK STUMP Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJ...
DIPLO![]()
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
DAVID LYNCH Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i...
B.O.B![]()
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea...
RAY CHARLES![]()
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'...
SHANIA TWAIN![]()
I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the ...
STORMZY I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
RANDALL PARK The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's rid...
GLENN DANZIG Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI![]()
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I...
BJORK It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their a...
CHRIS STAPLETON![]()
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas...
BRYAN ADAMS![]()
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
CAROLINE SHAW My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's ...
KIESZA People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Th...
CAM![]()
Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come tog...
JOHN LEGEND![]()
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you rig...
ARETHA FRANKLIN The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, n...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to t...
WAGNER MOURA![]()
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle...
SEAN COMBS Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I'v...
JANELLE MONAE My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage w...
JOHN ZORN![]()
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this inst...
AURORA The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some w...
ANTHONY BRAXTON That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D![]()
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau...
DAVID CROSBY It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, ...
PHOEBE TONKIN Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir...
LAURA OSNES![]()
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH![]()
The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS![]()
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
BILLIE HOLIDAY A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. The...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS![]()
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ...
TALIB KWELI Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I...
KACEY MUSGRAVES I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have b...
EVA VERTES I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE![]()
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's peop...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there'...
AARON DIEHL![]()
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what ot...
PAUL MERTON![]()
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.
TALIB KWELI![]()
It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'...
AIMEE MANN Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of mu...
KAREN FAIRCHILD![]()
I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and f...
HUNTER HAYES That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY![]()
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source...
JOSH GAD![]()
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'...
LIL UZI VERT What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d...
MICKEY HART Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music c...
JUICY J![]()
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, comi...
EL DEBARGE![]()
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi...
PSY![]()
I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to...
IRINA SHAYK![]()
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, an...
DAVID LYNCH![]()
I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
ACTION BRONSON I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human be...
GRIMES
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. ... SANDRA TSING LOH
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up... GARY WRIGHT
Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people togethe... BURNING SPEAR The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way...
DOUG MORRIS I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my...
KATE BUSH Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the w...
AL JARREAU I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of m...
JAMIE XX
I love to perform not only music, but to make performances extremely visual, and create almost a mag... LINDSEY STIRLING
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's... MATISYAHU I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame...
BEN MENDELSOHN Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibr...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD
The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music a... BABYFACE It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi... ICE T
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've go... DANIEL BARENBOIM
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... HUNTER HAYES
It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s... LIAM GALLAGHER
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import... EZRA KOENIG What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en... WASHED OUT Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way ...
TIESTO
Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like some... BURNING SPEAR When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart a... TEDDY THOMPSON
Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they ... STEVE AOKI With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ...
JIM DRAIN
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... HENRY ROLLINS
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to mus... ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t...
ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running b... A. R. RAHMAN I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho... CLIVE DAVIS
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ... MICHAEL STIPE
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound t... TOM PETTY Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important t...
PATRICK STUMP Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJ...
DIPLO
I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. DAVID LYNCH Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've...
WARREN G I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i...
B.O.B
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea... RAY CHARLES
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... SHANIA TWAIN
I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the ... STORMZY I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
RANDALL PARK The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's rid...
GLENN DANZIG Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With ...
CECILIA BARTOLI
The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I... BJORK It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their a...
CHRIS STAPLETON
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas... BRYAN ADAMS
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. CAROLINE SHAW My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's ...
KIESZA People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m...
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Th...
CAM
Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come tog... JOHN LEGEND
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you rig... ARETHA FRANKLIN The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, n...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE I grew up watching American films, listening to American music, and it's a big contribution to t...
WAGNER MOURA
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will refle... SEAN COMBS Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I'v...
JANELLE MONAE My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage w...
JOHN ZORN
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this inst... AURORA The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some w...
ANTHONY BRAXTON That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D
Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau... DAVID CROSBY It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, ...
PHOEBE TONKIN Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir...
LAURA OSNES
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ... EZRA POUND Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal langu...
PAUL EPWORTH
The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ... NICK JONAS
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. BILLIE HOLIDAY A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it's the best form to receive it. The...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I...
KACEY MUSGRAVES I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have b...
EVA VERTES I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's peop... ESPERANZA SPALDING I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there'...
AARON DIEHL
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what ot... PAUL MERTON
I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. TALIB KWELI
It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'... AIMEE MANN Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of mu...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and f... HUNTER HAYES That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source... JOSH GAD
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... LIL UZI VERT What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, d...
MICKEY HART Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music c...
JUICY J
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, comi... EL DEBARGE
To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny vi... PSY
I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to... IRINA SHAYK
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, an... DAVID LYNCH
I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to. ACTION BRONSON I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human be...
GRIMES
