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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
~ Don Van Vliet
They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.
~ Morrissey
There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.
~ Jimi Hendrix
There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
~ Dave Alvin
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.
~ Elton John
I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.
~ Kevin Eubanks
I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.
~ Kesha
I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
~ Joshua Homme
Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.
~ Matisyahu
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.
~ Neil Strauss
When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.
~ Gerry Beckley
I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'
~ Melissa Etheridge
The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
~ Florence Welch
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
~ Ben Harper
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
~ Billy Sherwood
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.
~ Compay Segundo
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
~ George Eliot
I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.
~ Glenn Branca
The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.
~ Gustav Ejstes
If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.
~ Ice T
...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.
~ Jimmy Lyons
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
~ John Lydon
I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.
~ Lola Kirke
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
~ Galileo Galilei