John Lydon
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ... MIKE D SANDRA TSING LOH Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love.... JUDY COLLINS TOMMY LEE What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU J. D. SOUTHER I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity i... MISSY ELLIOTT I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed... IAN MACKAYE Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or ... TERRY TEACHOUT SANDRA CISNEROS ARLO GUTHRIE Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG AURORA You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always t... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei... GARY BURTON TESSANNE CHIN I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ... MIRA NAIR DANIEL BARENBOIM MARCUS SAMUELSSON There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of ... EUGENE CHADBOURNE Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee... MARVIN SAPP I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever ... GEORGE CRUMB I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's... KACEY MUSGRAVES The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music... JONATHAN GALASSI JAY-Z MICHAEL STIPE BILLIE HOLIDAY All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music ... MIKE D We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a... GREGORY STOCK KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se... YOUNG JEEZY BJORK CLIVE DAVIS HUNTER HAYES In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young ar... KIM GORDON There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music... DAISY BERKOWITZ AVICII EZRA KOENIG God is a DJ, and life is a dance floor. There are people who play records and there are DJ's who blo... LILY CHATTERJEE JOSHUA BELL DAVID BOWIE On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it.... CARTER BURWELL I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't wan... JOHN DARNIELLE LISA LOEB Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I... KACEY MUSGRAVES JACK WHITE We are confident that this is the beginning of uniting the musical genres of the world, and uniting ... MARGARET SEYMOUR Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU KATHLEEN EDWARDS AIMEE MANN People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us... DAVID AMRAM I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn... AMBER ROSE I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music. KAILASH KHER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH BRIAN ENO ANNA DEAVERE SMITH SIMONE BILES It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think ... WAYNE COYNE BRANDON BOYD Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop m... AUTRE NE VEUT DR. DRE 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 SUSAN ORLEAN I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my... KATE BUSH ADAM MCKAY DANIEL BARENBOIM JOAN JETT LIL UZI VERT BILL BRUFORD More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incred... TAJ MAHAL ALBERT EINSTEIN ENDA KENNY I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see pe... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame... BEN MENDELSOHN BILLY JOEL CARLOS SANTANA DAVID GILMOUR I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Her... JANE WIEDLIN If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that c... GREG GINN SADE ADU I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies... GILLIAN WELCH JOHNATHON SCHAECH PENN JILLETTE DAVID BOWIE JENNI RIVERA BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN BAT FOR LASHES WASHED OUT Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in th... LEWIS BLACK All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is li... PHIL ANSELMO T. J. MILLER Even though there's no forum for me on the radio for the kind of music I sing anymore, I am stil... JOHNNY MATHIS
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No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately... 
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I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the... 
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Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this inst... 
I want to make the music that people remember, and it doesn't need a trend; it doesn't need ... 
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've go... 
I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&... 
I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lin... 
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ... 
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
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I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... 
I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An... 
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an import... 
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There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things... 
A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice ... 
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... 
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... 
It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and lo... 
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us... 
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially ... 
It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music ... 
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... 
In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallw... 
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are ac... 
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life... 
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record... 
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... 
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying t... 
Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the... 
I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who... 
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something... 
It's time for people to realize that we are all mixed up inside. That is why there is so much divers... 
When you realize that you have a little germ of an idea that has - I suppose I can only say, has to ... 
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to ... 
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen... 
You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. An... 
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The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en... 
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of come... 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable. 
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracia... 
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine. 
My reputation is a media creation. 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
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I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
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