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DAMIAN MARLEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're... EDDIE VAN HALEN So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy'...
JAMES YOUNG When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you'r...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man ... TOM WAITS
The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music g... GARY CLARK, JR. A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA
I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it... EDDIE VAN HALEN
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a b...
NICK CARTER
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing... HARRY STYLES
For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of thin... CHRIS PINE When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ...
EUZHAN PALCY I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it&#...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, th... JOHN LYDON
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY
You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're diffe...
CASEY AFFLECK
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ... WYNTON MARSALIS If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc...
AFROJACK
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always i... JOHN OLIVER
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground,... FRANK IERO Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plai...
BROWNIE MCGHEE
Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't... BRIAN ENO Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'...
YELAWOLF It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to...
HERBIE HANCOCK
I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound t... TOM PETTY
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something... BILLY JOEL
It's always difficult to define what jazz is or what jazz isn't. To me, the only definition ... DAVID SANBORN
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music ... TALIB KWELI Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understan...
KASKADE I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the ...
BRIA SKONBERG
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t... COREY TAYLOR
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL
I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appea... DEMETRI MARTIN
There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don&... JIMMY BUFFETT I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the l...
RIZ AHMED Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying t...
ZEDD I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has ... TOM WAITS
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th... AIMEE MANN
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got th... JIMI HENDRIX
I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to... SHARON JONES
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately... COMMON
I don't think it's changed that much when you go on the principle if Garth introduced more r... GARTH BROOKS
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc... B. B. KING Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I...
KACEY MUSGRAVES I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music,...
DANIEL BRYAN The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's ha...
CHRIS ISAAK People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to as...
NAYVADIUS CASH
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especial... JAMES TAYLOR
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business sid... CHANCE THE RAPPER 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You... JAY-Z
It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer.... MOBY Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is...
ICE CUBE
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next... DAN MILLMAN
We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it... JACK BLACK
You meet your soulmate, and you're like, 'Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling i... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER
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 For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It...
IMELDA MAY
A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some ... ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... SHANIA TWAIN I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on th...
FRED ARMISEN
If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes whe... ROBERT PATTINSON
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced ... AIMEE MANN
If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - tha... KATHLEEN KENNEDY Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
O'SHEA JACKSON, JR.
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; yo... YAEL NAIM
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea... DAVID BYRNE What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ...
AL JARREAU
I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's whe... JAY-Z
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very ... MICHAEL STIPE I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame...
BEN MENDELSOHN
Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's ...
BILL KREUTZMANN
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracia... JOHN LYDON Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing...
CARLA BLEY
In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it... FIONA APPLE Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan o...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest...
SONNY TERRY
The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en... WASHED OUT I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like thi...
PATRICK MARBER Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t...
BILL WALTON It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chanc...
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the re...
JANE SIBERRY
There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization witho... CLIVE DAVIS I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living ...
BRUCE COCKBURN 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 As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ...
SOPHIE THOMPSON
If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the qu... PAULA COLE
